Greetings from the Sandia International Security Conference, which is being held in Chantilly, VA. NNSA Director Linton Brooks, in his Congressional testimony, added some detail to the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program: With the support of Congress, we are beginning a program—the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program—to understand whether, if we relaxed warhead design constraints imposed …
Bolton and BW Intel
by | 2005-04-04 | 1 Comment
Interesting. Apparently some Senate staffers are looking into whether Bolton was involved in pressuring intel analysts about their assessments of Cuba’s BW program. Jeffrey wrote about this a while ago. Relevant excerpts from the SSCI report included.
Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations (Joint Publication 3-12)
by | 2005-04-04 | 4 Comments
*[DTIC subsequently removed these documents. Here are the four documents in a single, zipped file.]* The Joint Staff hates freedom. What else should I conclude when its staff knowingly place classified material they believe could be harmful to national security on a public webserver? Through that noted hacking program “Google,” I discovered that the Joint …
UNMOVIC Discredited "Curveball" in February 2003
by | 2005-04-03 | No Comments
Dafna Linzer—writing the Washington Post—notices that the WMD Commission reveals that UNMOVIC inspections in February 2003 discredited “Curveball”—the defector whose claims about mobile bio-weapons made a liar out of Colin Powell: That Iraq was cooking up biological agents in mobile facilities designed to elude the prying eyes of international inspectors and Western intelligence services was, …
