An SS-18 dismantled under START I. Jonathan Landay of Knight-Ridder reports that the intelligence community cannot verify the terms of the Moscow Treaty. The article is fascinating because of the revelations about how the Bush Administration approached the issue of verification and what that says about, for example, Stephen Rademaker’s recent claim that the Moscow …
Natwar’s N-speak and other craziness from the Subcontinent
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A wild hair up his ass, as well as his nose, that day. No one is exactly sure, but India’s External Affairs Minister seems to have indicated regret over India’s decision to go nuclear. The whole thing started when the Korea Times quoted K. Natwar Singh, in an interview with The Korea Times, as having …
Paris Negotiations Update 18: UF4 Production to continue until February
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Remember a couple of weeks ago when Iran nearly scuppered its accord with the EU-3 over its continued production of uranium tetraflouride (UF-4), which may have been considered “feed material” for highly enriched uranium? (No? Read my post dated 10 November 2004) Anyway, after some wrangling the Europeans got “basically … a full suspension,” a …
More on that Failed Missile Defense Test
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I somehow missed the Post’s Al Kamen kicking Rick Lehner and MDA in the jimmy on Monday: Opponents of the Bush administration’s Star Wars missile defense system jumped all over Wednesday’s failed launch, saying the setback showed the administration was rushing to deploy the system without adequate testing. Au contraire, said a spokesman for the …
