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, …
W-76, Nuclear Testing and the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program
by | 2005-04-02 | 1 Comment
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 …
A Financial Link in that AQ Khan-North Korea-Libya UF6 Daisy Chain?
by | 2005-04-01 | 1 Comment
David Sanger and Bill Broad have a summary of the North Korea UF6 story based on recent interviews with administration officials and foreign diplomats. The big revelation: Libyan officials have surrendered financial ledgers that reveal front companies for the AQ Khan network and may link North Korea directly to the shipment of UF6 that turned …
