Disruption and Regression
by December 8, 2019 | No Comments
|Quote of the week: “When Presidents become negotiators no escape routes are left for diplomacy. Concessions are irrevocable without dishonor. A stalemate stakes the personal prestige of the office; a mistake requires an admission of error. And since heads of government would not have chosen this career without a healthy dose of ego, negotiations can …
Retirement
by December 2, 2019 | 2 Comments
|Quote of the week: “I do not intend to hide in the taiga (the woods).” — Mikhail Gorbachev, last telephone conversation with George Bush before announcing his resignation on Christmas Day, 1991. After thirty years with Stimson, it’s time for me to retire. I’ll still be affiliated and keep my oar in the water, of …
The Canonical Affirmation
by November 25, 2019 | 5 Comments
|SALT I, Fifty Years On
by November 18, 2019 | No Comments
|Quote of the week: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness… Have you no sense of decency, sir?” – Attorney Joseph Welch, addressing Senator Joseph McCarthy during the “Army-McCarthy” witch hunt hearings, 1954 My colleague, the indefatigable and indispensable Daryl Kimball of the Arms Control Association, reminds …
Iran's Four Steps
by ACW Podcast | November 13, 2019
Krasnoyarsk: The Antecedent to the INF Treaty Violation?
by Michael Krepon | November 10, 2019
China's 70th National Day Parade
by ACW Podcast | November 6, 2019
In Memoriam: Stephen Philip Cohen
by Michael Krepon | November 3, 2019
Norm Building and Tear Downs
by Michael Krepon | October 27, 2019
Crocodiles, Technocrats and Commanders
by Fabian Hinz | October 25, 2019
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