Iran’s Uranium Conversion Facility is the weak point in Iran’s nuclear fuel cycle. That was a victory for US nonproliferation policy under, gasp, the Clinton Administration. The new NIE on Iran’s nuclear program contains a pair of substantive revelations. Dafna Linzer in the Washington Post reported that a new NIE suggsts Iran may be further …
Did You Get That Memo?
by | 2005-08-12 | 3 Comments
I have previously noted Wade Boese’s article explaining that, despite previous Bush administration claims, the BBC China interdiction was not a PSI operation. For whatever reason, SecState Rice decided around that time to argue that the “PSI provided the framework for action in the 2003 interdiction of the ship BBC China,” rather than saying the …
Air Force May Convert 50 ICBMs to Conventional Roles
by | 2005-08-11 | 11 Comments
A big story in a tiny little newspaper today. The forthcoming Quadrennial Defense Review may recommend that the Air Force convert 50 Minuteman III ICBMs to a conventional role, relocating the missiles to Vandenberg AFB in CA from their current home at picturesque Malmstrom AFB, Montana (pictured above). At least that is what Senator Kent …
Repliable Replacement Warheads
by | 2005-08-10 | 5 Comments
The Replacements – great 80s band. (copyright, Daniel Corrigan) The Reliable Replacement Warhead program is hot, very hot. It is all things to all people. Very pliable, as it were. A Hill staffer told me, in fact, that the Department of Energy is just giddy about the possibilities for this program. That, of course, is …
