Avatar photoToday's Nuclear Equation

The State Department has a released an e-journal entitled, Today’s Nuclear Equation. In addition to a digital copy of the “Duck and Cover” video, the e-journal contains a weird smattering of Administration propaganda (including articles from POTUS, DeSutter, Rademaker and Sanders) tarted up with articles by “experts” that toe the Administration line. My favorite article …

Avatar photoExiles and Iran Intel

Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball, who also wrote the Bolton/Cuba story referenced in my last post, has another piece about the MEK/NCRI’s role in revealing Iran’s nuclear programs. (See also ACW 24 October 2004) Most of you probably know that the NCRI announced in August 2002 that Iran had secret nuclear facilities at Arak and Natanz. The …

Avatar photoBrooks on the Reliable Replacement Warhead

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 …

Avatar photoBolton and BW Intel

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.