Down She Goes
Cool. I’m off to the US from Sunday to Wednesday for a conference in Maryland (Jeffrey will also be there). It’s at the conference centre where the Wye River Memorandum was negotiated. Also cool.
James Acton
Writing on ACW 2007–2010 · 88 posts · On the podcast: 2 episodes
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Syria-Iran link?
A big nuclear day today… BBC News is reporting that North Korea has handed over The Declaration; no word yet on its contents (excluding, of course, the continual stream of leaks over the past few months). On a not-entirely-unrelated theme,…
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Disarmament Down Under
A Tuesday morning distraction for you. I meant to post this yesterday—a Monday morning distraction would be more usual after all—but then got distracted myself… The Australian government recently announced that it would convene the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation…
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Le Livre Blanc Est Ici
Bonjour, mes amis. Somewhat delayed, the French White Paper on defence has been published this morning. Note the English version is “simplified”. The original is much longer and beyond my schoolboy French. If any ACW reader would like to read…
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Latest Khan Revelations
I’m now back from the US, where I had two week’s holiday followed by a conference at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Since the conference was under the Chatham House Rule, there’s not much I can say except that…
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Tracing Paper Causes Nuclear Sub Accident
I’m off on holiday for a couple of weeks and then have a conference out in Monterey so my posting may be a bit sporadic (read non-existent) until I get back. I hope to visit the museum at Los Alamos…
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Lessons from the RSA
A reader, Paul Carroll, made an important point in commenting on a previous post of mine about verifying the North Korean declaration: Obviously, when dealing with North Korea and the risk of diversion or concealment we want the uncertainty to…
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A Lot of NORK Pu
Glenn Kessler reported in the Washington Post yesterday that the US Intelligence Community has revised its estimate of the amount of plutonium separated at Yongbyon. U.S. intelligence analysts have prepared a fresh estimate of the size of North Korea’s stockpile…
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Syria's Short Stack
ISIS have released an impressive and comprehensive report detailing the deception techniques used by the Syrians for the Box on the Euphrates (Andreas has already beaten me to blog it—you obviously haven’t got enough work to do, mate!). It answers…
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Boom Fizzle Fizzle
Over at Verification, Andreas has put up the first two in a series of posts commemorating the tenth anniversary of India and Pakistan’s test series. Well worth checking out.