Two months ago, I wrote a blog post entitled Zhang Liying: China’s Missile Gal. At issue were a pair of quotations in an unclassified publication from the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) that suggested China was building anti-satellite weapons: Challenges to Space Superiority, published by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at …
A History of Concealment and Deception
by | 2005-09-15 | 5 Comments
Jacqueline Shire at ABC News obtained an unclassified State Department briefing—entitled Iran’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities: A Pattern of Peaceful Intent?—being used to make the case that Iran is up to no good. The briefing is divded into three sections: an examination of Iran’s concealment efforts using unclassified satellite imagery, an econometric analysis of Iran’s …
Wonk 2.0 & Paul Shambroom
by | 2005-09-14 | 5 Comments
Welcome to Arms Control Wonk.com version 2.0—upgraded and redesigned with help from my friend Greg over at hexive. I am excited about a number of new features, including some that are still in the pipeline. If you subscribe to wonk via feed (live bookmark or desktop application) please take a few minutes and update our …
Former IAEA DDG Goldschmidt: Refer Iran
by | 2005-09-14 | No Comments
Did you hear the one about the dehydrated Belgian … Pierre Goldschmidt, former IAEA DDG and now visiting scholar with the Carnegie Endowment, pens an op-ed in the New York Times calling for the IAEA Board of Governors to report Iran to the Security Council: The agency’s board of governors will meet in Vienna next …
