Barbara Demick swaps her column inches as ace international reporter for the Los Angeles Times for a turn as theater critic … sort of: Perhaps not since Mel Brooks conceived “Springtime for Hitler” in the comedy “The Producers” has there been such an unlikely premise for a musical. Chorus lines of goose-stepping soldiers and emaciated …
Where Would Jesus Look for WMD?
by | 2006-02-20 | 6 Comments
WWJLWMD, indeed. Apprently, William Tierney—leaker of the Saddam Tapes—is just too weird, even for Byron York and National Review Online: National Review Online February 20, 2006 “He Shall Direct Thy Paths to the Weapons of Mass Destruction.” The former U.N. inspector behind the “Saddam Tapes” says God revealed WMD sites to him. William Tierney, the …
Iran's Underground UF4 Plant
by | 2006-02-19 | 8 Comments
Last week, Dafna Linzer had a long, detailed story (and online chat) on intelligence found by German intelligence on a laptop computer stolen by an Iranian citizen in 2004. I am writing a four-part series looking at the key pieces of information: a schematic of a shaft that might be for a nuclear test, plans …
Chinese Underground Facilities
by | 2006-02-16 | 3 Comments
Click here for a GoogleEarth placemark. Tom Cochran, Matt McKinzie, Stan Norris, Laura Harrison and Hans Kristensen have a cool article, China’s Nuclear Forces: The World’s First Look at China’s Underground Facilities for Nuclear Warheads, in Imaging Notes. The images, particularly the SSBN sitting at the dock near a massive underground facility (taken by Digital …
