Think and Drink on Thursday
This week, T&D happy hour is going classy. I know everyone will miss the greasy Big Hunt burgers and pizza, but don’t be afraid, change is good. We will be at Heritage India, about a block down Connecticut from Dupont,…
Jane Vaynman
Writing on ACW 2006–2013 · 74 posts
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The Nicest Bathroom in Israel
When I hear “Dimona,” I think super-secret Israeli nuke program. I mean, doesn’t everyone? Little did I know that other grand secrets can be found in this little part of the Israeli desert. Who cares about the nukes when you…
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Sneaky Terrorists and Smoky Bombs
Given my prior obsession with the Litvinenko polonium-210 poisoning case, this op-ed in IHT, “How to Stop Radiation Terrorism” caught my attention. The authors, Peter D. Zimmerman, James M. Acton and M. Brooke Rogers, outline some of the dangerous radiological…
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Think and Drink Next Thursday
T&D Happy Hour is happening on Thursday August 2. The usual: Big Hunt, upstairs, 6pm and on. We will be discussing pressing issues of national security, such as my personal favorite topics: world leaders on personal transport devices, Russian poisonings,…
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Deploy the Spy Squirrels
I have often wondered, what kind of intelligence capabilities would we need to know whether the Iranians were hiding a nuclear weapons program? Now, eureka. Clearly, we need spy squirrels. Even those cunning Brits are doing it. Thank you NBC…
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Putin Suspends CFE
The Kremlin has issued a decree suspending Russia’s participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty (CFE). The link is to the Russian, and the English should be up shortly at www.kremlin.ru. From Reuters: The decree suspended Russia’s role in…
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Gone Fishin'
In the last few days, Presidents Bush and Putin were meeting, talking about their wives, fishing and playing with dogs. Oh, but there is more: As a gift, Bush gave Putin a Segway transporter, and he reportedly gave it a…
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Gabala Radar: Instead of vs. in Addition to
I want to follow up on a few issues on President Putin’s Gabala radar proposal. First, U.S. and Russia are currently talking about rather different conceptions of the plan, and second, both high level Russian officials and the press are…
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Russia Goodbye
This is it. My last day in Moscow. Some last notes from the motherland? Well, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke at the Carnegie Moscow Center yesterday. I spent the morning worrying about how not to get him stuck in the…
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Counter-Proliferation in Taiwan
The National Security Archive has released a new electronic briefing book on U.S. opposition to the Taiwanese nuclear program in the 1970’s. As is usual of the Archive’s excellent briefing books, compiled from documents acquired under FOIA and annotated with…