Jeffrey can write the substance today. I’ve been busy. I just noticed this exchange between the SecState and Kerry during Rice’s 18 January confirmation hearing: Context: Rice and Kerry were discussing the role of “interfaith efforts” in U.S. public diplomacy. Rice expressed doubts about the need for a government role. The rest speaks for itself. …
Reliable Replacement Warhead program
by | 2005-02-07 | No Comments
Bill Broad has an article in the New York Times about the Reliable Replacement Warhead program: Worried that the nation’s aging nuclear arsenal is increasingly fragile, American scientists have begun designing a new generation of nuclear arms meant to be sturdier and more reliable and to have longer lives, federal officials and private experts say. …
RNEP Shuffle
by | 2005-02-06 | No Comments
The Defense Department will strongly support Administration requests for nuclear weapons initiatives like the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP), reports Ian Hoffman in the Oakland Tribune (via John Fleck): [A]s the administration revives [new nuclear-weapons initiatives] Monday in the president’s 2006 budget request, civilian leaders at the Pentagon are expected to come out swinging, especially …
STRATCOM to lead DOD WMD efforts
by | 2005-02-05 | No Comments
Secretary Rumsfeld has signed a memorandum designating the Commander, US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) as the “lead combatant commander for integrating and synchronizing DOD in combatting WMD.” Choosing STRATCOM reflects a certain emphasis on preventive military action to combat the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons—counterproliferation. STRATCOM’s “first priority is to assess, advocate for the …
