Tom Friedman writes: “Readers of this column know that I rarely write about nuclear proliferation.” It shows. People who know about proliferation would not write that “the solution [to proliferation] is so ridiculously obvious there isn’t much to say.” [One could, however, anticipate such piffle from someone who said the Iraq debacle was a justified …
Libya/Syria/Bolton Housecleaning
by | 2005-06-01 | No Comments
Some relevant points on Syria and Libya’s suspected WMD programs that I’ve been meaning to post for a while. Libya I posted a while back about Bolton’s accusations that Libya was in violation of the BWC. This name-calling strategy was proven pretty much bankrupt when Libya was found to lack such a program. It is …
Hitlers Bombe Won't Go Away
by | 2005-06-01 | 4 Comments
Rainer Karlsch, author of Hitler’s Bombe, reveals “a previously unpublished diagram of a German nuclear weapon”: Shortly after the end of the war in Europe, an unknown German or Austrian scientist wrote a report that describes work on nuclear weapons during the war. This report, which RK discovered after Hitlers Bombe was published, contains both …
Deep Throat and Arms Control
by | 2005-05-31 | 1 Comment
I’ve long been fascinated by Watergate, All the President’s Men and the identity of Deep Throat. Today, Bob Woodward—prodded by a forthcoming Vanity Fair article—confirmed that Assistant FBI Director W. Mark Felt was “Deep Throat.” The possibility that Felt was Deep Throat was first noted in an excellent article by Jim Mann, also author of …
