Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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One of the competing narratives being pushed by the Bush Administration on the HDX/RDX story is the “jilted Mohamed” hypothesis. “Bush administration officials suspect political motivation behind a letter focused on the disappearance of 377 tons of explosives sent yesterday…
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Well, for the second time in something like six months, I’ve lost an entire hard drive. I hadn’t backed up in about a month, so this was really catastrophic. Anyway, I am starting to put my electronic life back together…
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The Nelson Report claims that Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton has informed IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei that “the US will not support his candidacy for a third term, even though both of his predecessors served four terms…
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I realize that I haven’t mentioned the sordid story how the US came to not have a policy on Iran. I mean that literally—no policy. None, zero, zip. Steven Aftergood at the Federation of American Sceintists has compiled a list…
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Readers may have noticed references over the past few days to a long-running dispute between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Brazil over access to a Brazilian facility to enrich uranium, INB Resende. The dispute centers over whether the…
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“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”—Winston Churchill He had a point. Keep it in mind and bear with me for a moment. I’ve recently noted that…
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A couple of weeks after I mentioned a study by Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)—a joint program of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and my employer the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), School of…
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Apparently we do have an Iran policy: be very, very vague. Check out these headlines: U.S. Signals Opposition to Light-Water Reactor Offer to Iran; Tehran Expected to Offer Deal to Europeans (Global Security Newswire, October 21, 2004) US presses Iran…
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My talk at the UN went well today. I heard a couple of especially blunt comments by officials from national delegations to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Among the things I heard: The Conference remains at an “impasse” created…
