How many nuclear bombs does North Korea have? That depends on their plutonium (Pu) stockpile and design skill. In April 2004, David Sanger claimed AQ Khan told Pakistani interrogators that he saw three plutonium bombs in North Korea. Today, buried deep in a related story, he casually drops that maybe the story was bullshit: … …
HEU Exports Revisited
by | 2005-07-29 | 2 Comments
My physician would like to run some tests. Please send HEU to me, c/o Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Pakistan. COD is okay. Stephen Young, once and future guest blogger at ACW, highlighted an obscure provision in the soon-to-pass Energy bill that would undermine efforts to gradually end U.S. exports of highly enriched uranium. Michael Grunwald in …
Me: No Evidence To Back Up ASAT Claims in Chinese Military Power
by | 2005-07-28 | 1 Comment
Leonard David at Space.com let me unload on DOD’s Chinese Military Power, which claims China intends to field ASATs: No evidence to back up claims Jeffrey Lewis, a Research Fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy in College Park, Maryland, is skeptical of some …
North Korea and Our Nuclear Umbrella
by | 2005-07-28 | 3 Comments
A couple of news outlets have mentioned that North Korea demanded the United States withdraw the “nuclear umbrella” extended to South Korea. Bloomberg cited Xinhua, which was citing Yonhap. Here is the quote from Yonhap: The top North Korean negotiator, Kim Kye-gwan, … demanded the removal of a US nuclear umbrella for South Korea, a …
