Steeljaw Scribe

Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment…

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CIA in 1974: “Israel Has Nuclear Weapons”

January 11th, 2008 3 Comments

(h/t ArmsControlWonk 5)
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In a curious action, the 1974 National Intelligence Assessment on foreign nation’s nuclear arms development programs was released by the Bush Administration on the eve of his trip to Israel and the Gulf States.  The NIA contains some rather stunning wording - in prticular, the assessment by CIA that:

We believe Israel already has [...]

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Flightdeck Friday: Hypersonics - Douglas D-558-III

January 11th, 2008 No Comments

As the emerging theme this week is hypersonics, what with the reference to the Shenlong  and the upload to the Virtual Library of a comprehensive 3-volume history of the US hypersonic effort   from the X-15 through the NASP, reader and frequent correspondent Thommy Thomason joins the scene as a guest author of this [...]

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