Writing on ACW 2007–2010 · 88 posts · On the podcast: 2 episodes
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I’ve spent a lot of time over the past month or so on planes to disarmament conferences and planes to non-proliferation conferences, and on one of those journeys (to Geneva, in fact!) I (re)read something that made a very deep…
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A potentially interesting development in the whole Iran thing… The next issue of Jane’s International Defence Review (available from here for subscribers) contains an article by Mark Harrington in which he says: Documents shown exclusively to Jane’s indicate that Iran…
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Readers, we have failed you. From 4 February to 7 March one of the Wonk’s favourite events in the entire nuclear calendar took place and we didn’t even comment on it… yes, that’s right, Miss Atom 2008. We can but…
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I’m currently doing some reading on nuclear power in the Middle East. As is my (and many Wonk readers) wont I like trying to find the places I read about on Google Earth. Finding Inshas, Egypt’s nuclear research centre, has…
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As part of the Wonk’s public service role, let me bring to your attention an outstanding resource letter, “Physics and Society: Nuclear Arms Control”, that was published by Alex Glaser and Zia Mian in the January edition of the American…
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Jeffrey (quite rightly) had words with me in Oslo about my recent lack of postings and so let me start this week with a public promise to improve my blogging statistics. Incidentally, speaking of Oslo, the Minister’s Summary (which I…
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Two weeks ago it was Brown (Gordon, the PM), this week it’s Browne (Des, the Secretary of State for Defence). It seems that senior British politicians can’t stop talking about disarmament. (I’ll refrain from making the obvious surname joke; not…
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Yesterday’s Global Security Newswire has a hilarious story about a Laboratory Preparedness Survey in 2007 (an exercise in which labs are required to identify an unknown pathogen). Obviously, it’s funny for all the wrong reasons. Here’s a taster (or should…
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Jeffrey set me a challenge by last week. Before outlining it and my answer, some background might be in order first… As he outlined in a recent post, in their November draft declaration, the North Koreans continued to deny the…
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Ever since then British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett got sacked a day or two after making a speech on disarmament at last year’s Carnegie Conference, British officials have been at pains to point out that the two events were entirely…
