DOE Director for Policy Planning John Harvey said: “Anything’s possible” when asked about rumors the Administration might attempt to fund a series of controversial nuclear weapons programs out of the Defense budget in order to bypass opposition from the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and its Chairman, Representative David Hobson (R-OH). For more information, see: …
North Korea: So Don't Talk…See if We Care
by | 2004-12-17 | No Comments
I was catching up on reading State Department transcripts and ran across this response from spokesperson Richard Boucher to a question regarding the stalled six-party talks. Given that North Korea is free to continue working on its nuclear weapons programs, it is troubling that there’s not even another round of talks scheduled. Even if this …
Iran's Bomb
by | 2004-12-16 | No Comments
After an e-mail exchange, reader JP sends along an interview that Yossi Melman of Ha’aretz conducted with Shahram Chubin (left) of the Geneva Center for Security Policy. Chubin makes the case that Iran’s nuclear policy remains inchoate, loosely organized around a general consensus that Iran should have at least the option to go nuclear—something Mohamed …
A Real Ballistic Missile Defense
by | 2004-12-15 | 8 Comments
As you probably already know, the Missile Defense Agency’s Integrated Flight Test (IFT)-13C failed today. I’ve got a post on the subject, Performance Anxiety: Missile Defense Booster Fails to Rise to the Occassion, over on DefenseTech.org. That post notes that flight tests cost around $100 million (this one may have been less since they didn’t …
