Look for Siobhan Gorman of the Baltimore Sun to break some big intelligence stories out of the DNI’s office in future—she gives DDNI General Michael V. Hayden some sugary lovin’ in a classic beat sweetner today: Michael V. Hayden sets his alarm for 4:30 a.m. That way, he can fit in a five-mile run to …
Roston: J-Bolt Screwed Iraqi Scientists
by | 2005-10-05 | No Comments
Michael Roston adds to the list of reasons that John Bolton was a lousy Undersecretary of State—apparently he held up efforts to secure Iraqi scientists after Operation Iraqi Freedom: Regular readers of Arms Control Wonk know that the pro-international institution critics of John Bolton pursued the wrong strategy in blocking his confirmation. By playing up …
Can North Korea Produce UF6?
by | 2005-10-05 | 1 Comment
Picking up comments by Ambassador Hill at the Foreign Press Center (still not on the website), Peter Baker and Glenn Kessler report in the Washington Post that the Bush Administration plans “to push North Korea to begin disclosing the extent and locations of its secret development programs right away to test the sincerity of Pyongyang’s …
Questions about NORK Centrifuge Program
by | 2005-10-04 | 3 Comments
A former Department of State told Paul Kerr that “North Korea has probably imported enough components for 3,000-5,000 centrifuges and may have acquired enough for 6,000-7,000.” Whether those components have been assembeled into centrifuges or whether North Korea can make UF6 feedstock is another question. Malaysian components produced for Libya’s nuclear weapons program. After talking …
