Avatar photoDoctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations (Joint Publication 3-12)

*[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 …

Avatar photoUNMOVIC Discredited "Curveball" in February 2003

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, …

Avatar photoW-76, Nuclear Testing and the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program

Bill Broad writes in the New York Times about a “fierce debate among experts inside and outside the government over [the W-76 nuclear warhead’s] reliability and its place in the nuclear arsenal.” Broad’s story builds on John Fleck’s excellent reporting for the Albuquerque Journal about a March 2004 meeting where “nuclear weapons experts” suggested the …

Avatar photoKissinger Undergoes Heart Procedure

I am just shocked he has one.