Miss Atom Vote!
It is time. The voting has started. (Read about the Miss Atom contest – and our plan – in my prior post.) We will be taking nominations for our ACW pick for the next few days. Comment away. In an…
Jane Vaynman
Writing on ACW 2006–2013 · 74 posts
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Not So Peaceful Skies: More INF Concerns
On February 23, Russia celebrated Fatherland Defender Day. I heard many toasts ending with “za mirnoe nebo” or to the peaceful skies. Seems like a great opportunity to again call attention to Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) issues, which I…
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Putin Appoints New Defense Minister
Putin has appointed Anatoly Serdyukov, formerly head of the Federal Tax Service, as Russia’s new Defense Minister. Sergei Ivanov will now assume the post of first deputy prime minister. The same post is also occupied by another very important figure…
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Russia Questions INF, Again
Russian officials have again questioned the future of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty or just INF. In March 2005, Jeffrey blogged about a feeler from Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to then-SECDEF Rumsfeld about possible Russian withdrawal from the INF…
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Hot or Not?
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the hottest Russian woman working in the nuclear industry of them all? Nuclear.ru and Rosatom are set to crown this year’s . . . MISS ATOM! Who has what it takes to win?…
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Trouble for Ahmadinejad
Is there actually something promising happening in this whole Iran nuclear drama? A number of recent indications suggest that Iranian President Ahmadinejad is in trouble, and his uncompromising stance on the nuclear program is being questioned within Iran. If Ahmadinejad…
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Jordan seeks nuclear energy program
A while ago I blogged about countries in the Middle East who have recently expressed interest in pursuing peaceful nuclear energy programs. That list now also includes Jordan. Why should they go for nuclear energy? As King Abudllah II recently…
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Responses to Chinese test
Most Russian news repeated almost verbatim the US and British press reports on the Chinese ASAT test, but there is a little info this afternoon on the Russian reaction. (Only Russian language links are up for now, translations are mine.)…
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Now approaching midnight
This is DJ Shadow. His “Midnight in a Perfect World” contains is one of many pop culture references to The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist’s “Doomsday Clock” that tracks the level of nuclear danger in the world. (Jeffrey adds: Paul…
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Truthiness comes to nonproliferation
Truthiness is so popular that calling attention to it is almost trite. Soooo 2006. But I’ll indulge just this once. A recent LA Times op-ed comments on the Times of London article about secret Israeli plans to strike Iran if…