Sandia officials tell John Fleck that the R NEP sled test will not be conducted at Sandia: That has prompted speculation that the Sandia test would go forward. Jeffrey Lewis … discussed the issue most recently last week. If the test is really going to go forward, that’s a story, so I called up the …
Curious Sanctions
by | 2006-01-05 | No Comments
I’ve written a short analysis, Curious Sanctions, for the Carnegie Endowment’s Proliferation News about the US sanctions imposed on two Indian chemical companies. By its own count, the Bush Administration has imposed sanctions at a significantly greater rate than the Clinton Administration. Most recently, the United States sanctioned two Indian chemical companies, along with four …
Kim Jong Il's Bodyguards
by | 2006-01-05 | 6 Comments
Go ahead and press play (Or view it here if you have browser trouble). The clip is real—it is taken from a real 2003 BBC Documentary called The Real Dr. Evil (You can download the entire documentary). Chosun Ilbo even reported on it. The man interviewed is Lee Young Kuk, a North Korean defector who …
WMD Procurement Networks in Europe
by | 2006-01-04 | 2 Comments
Ian Cobain has a pair of stories in The Guardian summarizing a “report from a leading EU intelligence service” used “to warn off EU companies from doing business” with front companies for foreign WMD programs: The 55-page intelligence assessment, dated July 1 2005, draws upon material gathered by British, French, German and Belgian agencies, and …
