Writing on ACW 2007–2010 · 88 posts · On the podcast: 2 episodes
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This is a question that was discussed at a couple of meetings I attended last year. In the short-term, the objective is of course to get plutonium out of the reactor and into wet storage ASAP. Presumably, however, the US…
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I’m tickled pink that my brief comment about the purpose of arms control in a recent post has already provoked debate. I think some of you are expecting me to argue to that, now the Cold War has ended, arms…
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Now that the administrative joys of the start of term have begun to subside I have time start to posting again… Actually, my first full day back was an enjoyable one as I attended a conference organised by Dan Plesch…
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Sorting out my accumulated junk that has, for the past few years, been slowly mouldering in my dad’s attic, I recently found my copy of Peter Hennessy’s brilliant The Secret State, a political history of British nuclear policy during the…
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I have to admit I’m quite surprised that my “long weekend“ post generated quite as much heated comment as it did. But that, I guess, is the pleasure of blogging on the Wonk. Anyway, now for something completely different: highly…
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Regular Wonk readers will know that the question of how long it would take Japan to build the Bomb has been a subject of interest in the past. See here and here for starters. Well, we now have a new…
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Yesterday’s news that Bush wrote to Kim, reminded me of some back-of-the-envelope calculations I did a couple of months ago on verifying North Korean plutonium production. After all, when (I’ll be optimistic and refrain from saying ‘if’) North Korea submits…
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First off, let me say hello to the Wonk’s readers. Hello. So, I have to admit, I have slightly mixed feelings about the NIE. Don’t get me wrong. If it results in a ‘surge of diplomacy’ it is certainly a…
