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Israel, Nuclear Weapons and the 1973 Yom Kippur War

Jeffrey Lewis | Oct 21, 2013 | Relevancy Score: 15.98

…Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir overruled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, halting preparations to ready the country’s nuclear weapons for a possible demonstration during the 1973 War.[2] This interview upends conventional…

 

How Many Chinese Front Companies?

Jeffrey Lewis | Aug 16, 2005 | Relevancy Score: 14.2

…include any “affiliated with the PRC’s defense industrial base”: Expansion of Firms Defined as a “Communist Chinese Military Company”. The Department of Defense and other agencies are required to maintain…

 

Like Rashomon, But for Wonks

Jeffrey Lewis | Mar 11, 2005 | Relevancy Score: 14.2

…22, under Missile Defense. Defense Daily and Inside Defense didn’t make the cut. Speaking of Rashomon: Victoria mentioned the story to both Shachtman and me. For his take, where he…

 

Garwin on Missile Defense

Jeffrey Lewis | Oct 30, 2004 | Relevancy Score: 14.2

Dick Garwin has an article on missile defense in Scientific American. Garwin concludes that “despite the more than $80 billion spent by the U.S. on missile defense since 1985, this…

 

Missile Defense

Jeffrey Lewis | May 02, 2022 | Relevancy Score: 14.2

…it with me. And I, in turn, asked permission to share it with you. Karl graciously agreed. Prompt F) Explain ballistic missile defense, i.e. systems to intercept ballistic missiles, to…

 

In Defense of the Open Skies Treaty

Michael Krepon | Mar 08, 2016 | Relevancy Score: 14.2

…up by intrusive inspections at missile production facilities and bases. Then in 1992, the Open Skies Treaty was signed. Cooperative aerial observation flights became possible from Vancouver all the way…

 

Chabahar Shuffle

Dave Schmerler | May 13, 2024 | Relevancy Score: 14.2

…Defense Ministry’s Imam Khomeini Space Base near Semnan and the IRGC’s Imam Reza Space Base near Shahroud. The Iranian Defense Ministry’s Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) is constructing the new space…

 

Hands Off My Nukes! Does Rumsfeld Want NNSA?

Jeffrey Lewis | Apr 13, 2005 | Relevancy Score: 14.2

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could make Caligula (right) blush. Jason Sherman of Inside Defense reports that Undersecretary of Defense Michael Wynne has signed the Terms of Reference (TOR) for…

 

Three Poles Walk Into a GMD Site …

Jeffrey Lewis | May 28, 2006 | Relevancy Score: 14.2

Michael Gordon has a competent summary of debates surrounding a possible third missile defense interceptor site in eastern Europe. The Missile Defense Agency, according to Gordon, argues that a site…

 

Russian Defense Minister Ivanov and the Ideology of the Nuclear Posture Review

Jeffrey Lewis | Mar 27, 2004 | Relevancy Score: 14.2

…its nuclear forces,” warned Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov recently. Although the press coverage links the statement to US plans to develop low yield nuclear weapons, the really scary fact…