A 1999 cable kept secret for decades describes a high-stakes gamble to neutralize North Korea's nuclear program by treating China as a tool for leverage while sidelining South Korean interests.
By Roy Castellano ·
Kept secret for years, the record shows a high-stakes gamble in Kuala Lumpur and Pyongyang to stop North Korean nukes before Congressional funding vanished.
By Eleanor Voss ·
A redacted intelligence study from Lawrence Livermore was being prepared for special operations commanders, even as the world watched Pakistan’s nuclear expansion.
By Eleanor Voss ·
A 1994 diplomatic warning about Russian nuclear security remained a matter of state record while the names of the compromised facilities and the buyers of their secrets were kept off the page.
By Roy Castellano ·
Kept secret for decades and still heavily redacted, a Z Division study identifies "inconsistent" claims made by New Delhi after the May 1998 Pokhran-II tests.
By Roy Castellano ·
A 1998 cable kept confidential for years shows a gamble to trade incentives for inspections while the U.S. hid internal rifts over the threshold for war
By Eleanor Voss ·
Half of a 1999 diplomatic script remains blacked out, hiding the exact price the U.S. was willing to pay to stop North Korea's nuclear program.
By Roy Castellano ·
Confidential for years, a 1999 meeting shows the US adopting a Chinese-written treaty to handle Pyongyang while the real discussion on Taiwan remained off the record.
By Roy Castellano ·
A confidential 1998 cable shows how South Korea’s economic fragility and a stalled energy project pushed the peninsula to the edge of a nuclear restart.
By Roy Castellano ·
South Asia's pursuit of the bomb remained a primary concern for the Joint Intelligence Bureau, whose files on India's nuclear programme were kept within the Ministry of Defence.
By Roy Castellano ·
For decades, the technical blueprints of nuclear weapons and the people building them were tracked by a shadow directorate whose very existence remained a state secret.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Boris Yeltsin denied sending dangerous missile technology to Iran while admitting he launched a nuclear weapon at the Kamchatka Peninsula during a private 1997 dinner.
By Roy Castellano ·
US intelligence closely monitored India as the nation sought a nuclear capability that could not be throttled by outside powers.
By Roy Castellano ·