I have my semi-weekly column up at Foreign Policy arguing that the impending demise of Nunn-Lugar is of a piece with the loss of monitoring at Votkinsk and obligatory telemetry exchanges with the expiration of the START treaty. The Russians…
Regular readers know that one of my hobby horses is that the US and Russia should revive the sea-launched cruise missile data exchanges that expired with START as a confidence-building measure because the next agreement will probably have to say…
One of the things I am terrible about is promising to post worthwhile public service announcements, then forgetting! Anyway, I don’t want to forget this one. Any chance to listen to Linton Brooks by day, and then hash it out…
Just as expected, after a protracted negotiation, the U.S. and South Korea have agreed to relax the bilateral “guidelines” limiting the range and payload of South Korean missiles. It’s an election year in South Korea and — well, why mince…
UN Photo/J Carrier Note from Jeffrey: I’m still on blog sabbatical in baby-land. Here’s another anonymous guest post. Let’s be fair. It’s hard to simplify what’s not so simple. And it’s harder still to get your point across if few…
A friend and colleague who prefers to remain anonymous has asked me to post the following. For reasons you can probably guess, I haven’t had time to take a hard look at the numbers. By now everyone already knows about…
So, baby number 2 is due any day now. I don’t expect to be blogging much over the coming month. One of the great joys of working at the Monterey Institute is the tremendous number of talented students with amazing…
Is that a plastic model of Obama with his hand on the proverbial button? Turns out, it is a little red phone. The product is an “Obama 3 am Phone Call Squeezable Figure.” It reminds my of my favorite Onion…
Did you know that China occasionally exports enrichment services? I didn’t. But, sure enough, they do from time to time.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace are celebrating their 100th birthdays by creating a $50,000 prize to recognize individuals or institutions dedicated to advancing the cause of nuclear security. The prize is named after it’s…
