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 …
The Strange Case of Rod Barton
by | 2005-02-15 | 2 Comments
Rod Barton (right) is an Australian microbiologist who served on the Iraq Survey Group (click here for Charlie Duelfer’s letter of gratitude). Barton has given an interview to an Australian television program, Four Corners, about his time on the ISG. Much of the coverage in Australia centers on Barton’s participation in interrogations—Prime Minister John Howard …
Scrounging for Iraq Excuses
by | 2005-02-15 | 1 Comment
It’s late, so I thought I’d take aim at this barrel of fish. Someone asked a question at the ACA meeting about how, given the Iraq intel debacle, the US can build a credible case regarding Iran and North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs. As part of his answer, Assistant SecState Stephen Rademaker stated that: MR. …
