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Greetings from The Carnegie Conference

Well, I just settled into the balcony, plunked down 12 bucks for internet access and now George is handing out grades based on the Universal Compliance report:

  • Obligation One: Make Nonproliferation Irreversible. D
  • Obligation Two: Devalue the Political and Military Currency of Nuclear Weapons. F
  • Obligation Three: Secure all nulcear materials. C-
  • Obligation Four: Stop Illegal Transfers. C-
  • Obligation Five: Commit to Conflict Resolution. C+
  • Obligation Six: Persuade India, Israel, and Pakistan to accept the same nonproliferation obligations accepted by the weapon state signatories [to the NPT]. D-
  • Conclusion – The Final Grade: D+

Well that’s cheery. I need some coffee.

Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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