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Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts

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Bob Joseph Leaving State

Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security “Space Based” Bob Joseph is set to leave the State Department: Good jobs opening up at the State Department. Buzz is Robert Joseph, undersecretary for arms control and international security, is…

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Total Wonkerr

Paul notes that, like, you could also check out hisawesome blog while I am away. But you were already doing that anyway, right? Oh, and I stole that line about wonks wrong about Iraq WMD sitting in the corner and…

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Off To Colorado Springs …

Hey all, I am off to Colorado Springs for the Center for Space and Defense Studies Second Forum on Space and Defense Studies. I went last year, and had a blast. Not clear to me why the good people at…

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Fall Guy

Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger profile Linton Brooks in Slate, concluding: The critics were right: Linton Brooks failed to fix the labs, but who can? Like Charlie Brown in his eternal quest to kick the football, we wonder if Brooks…

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Blogging Heads TV

Jackie Shire and I are on blogging heads TV. I look like a space alien, but whatever.

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So Long, Linton

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has fired NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks. NNSA Deputy Administrator Tom D’Agostino will serve as acting Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator. Linton Brooks is a fine public servant getting a raw deal. Bodman cited…

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N Minus Six Months

We were discussing the origin of the widespread claim that Japan is “six months” from a bomb—and the earliest scholarly reference I could find was Richard Halloran’s Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited: Is Japanese Militarism Resurgent. Halloran argues: Japan also has…

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Second NORK Nuclear Test?

ABC’s Jonathan Karl is quoting a “senior defense officials” claiming that North Korea has made preparations for a second nuclear test. North Korea appears to have made preparations for another nuclear test, according to U.S. defense officials. “We think they’ve…

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Israel Wants Same Treatment as India

Wonder how our friends in Israel feel about that big, gaping hole we blew in the nonproliferation regime for India? Jealous, according to Mark Hibbs: During the last 18 months, Israeli officials have discreetly explored, including in bilateral discussions with…

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From One Success to Another

From the genius who brought you the Bush Administration’s stem cell policy … comes our North Korea policy: The architect of [the Bush Administration’s policy on stem cell research], navigating ethically and politically treacherous terrain, was a litigator named Jay…