On the radar: Levi on factors facilitating sanctions; Not time to relax oversight of the complex; Piecemeal BMD in the Gulf; STRATCOM on CMRR alternatives; Parsi on U.S.-Israel-Iran conundrum; First MDA chief from the Navy; and Firsthand pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On the radar: $800 million < $6 billion; Experts say Iran not the world’s greatest threat; Activists spent hours on Y-12 grounds; Lugar seeks CTR renewal; Iran’s chicken crisis; and Little Boy blast height was set for destroying civilian targets.
On the radar: Eliminating unnecessary nuclear spending; New Chief for MDA; Cubanmissilecrisis.org; US, Israel and the Iran red-line; Missed opportunities with Iran; Twilight War; Drezner: Israeli rhetoric not helpful; and Chuck Norris opines.
On the radar: Gen. Schwartz on the hedge; Hiroshima anniversary; Help us fold 1,000 paper cranes; Five myths of Iran-U.S. relations; Y-12 protestors receive charges, bail; Technical primer on SPY-1; Another North Korea test?; MEADS rises again; and North Korea invades U.S. on November 21st.
On the radar: Ashton needs confidence-building from Iran; Continued engagement with Iran; Cartwright: 300 nukes are catastrophic enough; At war at the ping pong table; McKeon and Turner say NNSA doesn’t deliver; Nuclear public opinion in Japan; #NotIntendedToBeAnOriginalStatement; Experts on Iran timetable; and Friday fallout fun.
On the radar: Nuclear trade and nonproliferation; Iran completes Parchin clean-up; MDA has a smut problem; Y-12 stand-down; Pillar on pressure madness; Budget mismatch on nuclear security; and Instagramming the bomb.
On the radar: GAO on targeting and requirements; NNSA is really bad at budget estimates; US Intel officials want Iran navy hotline; Iran’s nuclear naval plans; Senate Approps plumps up BMD; the Midas touch of nuclear weapons; White House tightens sanctions; Missile tracking ship starts sea trials; and That Time William F. Buckley wanted to nuke Vietnam.
On the radar: Congress agrees on next raft of sanctions; B-61 costs more than its weight in gold; DIY CTBT monitoring; More nukes is bad strategy; Turkey’s ballistic missile program; Twilight War; and How much it would cost to really secure Y-12.