Avatar photoPostol Op-Ed in the Boston Globe

Ted Postol has an op-ed in the Boston Globe regarding MIT’s announcement “that it could not investigate credible evidence of possible scientific fraud in fundamental National Missile Defense research being done at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory.”

Avatar photoLatent Deterrents in Iran and North Korea

A couple of days ago, David Sanger and Bill Broad reported that IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei is “now certain that the nuclear material his agency once monitored there has been converted into fuel for four to six nuclear bombs.” Yet what ElBaradei actually said was “I’m sure they have reprocessed it all”—something he was able …

Avatar photoPodvig and Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces

Pavel Podvig, author of the definitive Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (makes a nice stocking stuffer), has a website and episodic blog entitled—what else—Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. The goal of his Russian Nuclear Forces Project is to provide Russian citizens and policy makers with information about nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament based on open scientific …

Avatar photoGuest Bloggin' at DefenseTech.org

I’ll be guest bloggin’ over at DefenseTech.org though the end of the week. My first post— concerning Russian efforts to market commerical launch services using to-be-decomissioned SS-18 ICBMS—is up there now. While guest blogging, I will still post particularly wonky things at ArmsControlWonk.com.