Taking arms control with him? The Washington Times reports that SECSTATE has approved a plan to merge the State Department’s arms control and nonproliferation bureaus “having concluded that much of their work oveps and resources are being wasted.” The State Department IG made the recommendation in September after a a routine evaluation of the four …
Nuclear Test Watch Relaunch
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Michael Roston has given Nuclear Test Watch its own home.
US to Miss CWC Deadline
by | 2005-01-12 | 1 Comment
USA Today has obtained a set of documents, dated 21 December 2004, stating that construction on CW disposal facilities in CO and KY won’t begin until 2011 — five years after originally planned and too late to meet US obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention. A government source told AP on condition of anonymity that …
Iraq Survey Group Ends Work
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Working on some odds and ends. Officials with the Iraq Survey Group tell The Washington Post that “the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to fold up the effort shortly before Christmas.” Is “shortly before Christmas’ a polite way of saying “just after the election”? The findings of the …
