Today’s posting by the non-profit National Security Archive In Washington DC follows the recent admission by Pakistani President Arif Alvi that the country had already developed a “nuclear deterrent” by 1981, long before the underground nuclear tests of 1998. Alvi may have exaggerated in claiming that Pakistan had “joined those nations which were … equipped with...
Category: Counterproliferation
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The New Russian Cruise Missile Known as the ‘Flying Chernobyl’
They call it to call it a “flying Chernobyl. It is a Russian cruise missile, known as Skyfall, that is powered, not by rocket fuel, but by a nuclear reactor. The world is paying attention to this proliferation threat. “Using a nuclear reactor would, in principle, give the cruise missile unlimited range to fly...
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Directors of CIA and Mossad Meet in Israel
So far we have mostly wire service coverage. The situation: The United States is seeking to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran, while Israel seeks to disrupt those talks. Israeli press offers unsubstantiated rumor while Iran reminds the United States it has escalatory powers with a barrage of Hezbollah rockets and Persian Gulf drone attack. Bill...
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South Korea’s Intelligence Agency Pushes for Olympic Diplomacy
In an exclusive analysis for Deep States, journalist Timothy Shorrock explained last how the South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) viewed the U.S. presidential election. The NIS, Shorrock reported. plays a key role in President Moon Jae-in’s peace and denuclearization agenda. Shorrock predicted this role would continue regardless of who won the White House. And...
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Israel’s Secret Nuclear Program: Why CIA Intelligence Failed So Badly
From the National Security Archive, a deep dive on a sensitive geopolitical issue that is rarely raised in Washington: how Israel became the first and only nuclear power in the Middle East. While the events in question happened some 50 years ago, they reverberate today. The United States and Israel, as nuclear powers, have...
