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What Nuclear Secret Was Kerry Aide Looking for in Switzerland?

By Jeff Stein | June 5, 2009 12:40 AM | | Comments (0)

Swiss police threatened to arrest an aide to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., for espionage last month if he entered the country in pursuit of a CIA connection to Pakistan's secret nuclear bomb smuggling.

Tags: A_Q_Khan, Douglas_Franz, iran, John_Kerry, Libya, North_Korea, nuclear_black_marker, nuclear_weapons, Pakistan, Senate_Foreign_Relations_Committee, Switzerland, Urs_Tinner

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Pity the Poor North Korean Rocket Scientist Who Got It Wrong

By Jeff Stein | April 6, 2009 2:57 PM | | Comments (2)

Amid the weekend's scare stories about the nuclear Hermit Kingdom's missile test, few seemed to notice that it fizzled out.

And the sight of the rocket's third stage plopping into the North Pacific could present the missile bureaucrats who toil under North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il with an "uncomfortable" review, notes Joseph Bermudez, Jane Defense Weekly's expert on the secretive communist country.

Tags: ICBM, Jane, Japan, Joseph_Bermudez, missile, Nathan_Hodge, North_Korea, nuclear_weapons

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