The Congressional Budget Office has released Budget Options (February 2005), which presents options to the House and Senate for altering federal spending and revenues. Among the cuts to national defense spending, CBO examined several options relating to nuclear weapons and missile defense, including: Option 050-12 Reduce the Trident Submarine Force to 12 and Buy 48 …
Arms Control Wonk Outage
by | 2005-02-18 | 1 Comment
I’ve had a case of the flu. I should resume posting over the weekend.
North Korean Nuclear Weapons Estimate
by | 2005-02-16 | 1 Comment
Long Island’s Newsday reports on the contents of a recent intelligence community-wide assessment of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. The estimates run from the CIA (2-3 bombs) to DIA (12-15 bombs, “tops”), with DOE in between. Newsday reports that discrepancies “reflect uncertainties about the size of the bombs and whether North Korea has begun producing some …
Rice Approves Merger of Arms Control and Nonproliferation Bureaus
by | 2005-02-16 | 2 Comments
Apparently even its memory is too much. In mid-January, I reported that the State Department was poised to merge the bureaus responsible for arms control and nonproliferation. SecState Rice has agreed in principle to the merger, sources tell InsideDefense.com. As I noted then, the merger all but finishes off what remains of the Arms Control …
