Hostile Intent
I am back from London –where I participated in a Track 2 conversation with real live North Korean officials, with Kim Il Sung pins and everything. It was very interesting!
Jeffrey Lewis
Rockets and the Leap Day Deal
I am beginning to understand how the US-DPRK “Leap Day Deal” came apart . You have to hand it to the North Koreans. They screwed the Obama Administration. But the Obama Administration didn’t do itself any favors, either.
A Nuclear Coup
If you liked reading Frederick Forsyth’s Day of the Jackal, wait until you see the new monograph by Bruno Tertrais, A “Nuclear Coup”? France, the Algerian War and the April 1961 Nuclear Test.
Long Range Missiles Of Any Kind
I have previously noted the importance of reading very, very closely the utterances of the Great Fitzpatrick. Another case in point: On March 15, Mark gave a talk at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House in which he “predicted trouble” over…
Honest Johns in Korea
I find it hard to believe that one could confuse a nuclear weapon with a latrine, but during the 1970s anything was possible.
Tuppenny Trident?
In case you haven’t been watching, some very interesting fissures are now evident in the support for an independent British nuclear deterrent. This is going to be very interesting. There are two factors at play — the looming UK budget…
Significant Quantities Rant
Working at a think tank with lots of proliferation specialists offers certain advantages, especially the casual conversations. It turns out Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, Miles Pomper and I all share a pet-peeve: When people incorrectly convert amounts of plutonium and especially highly…
Goldschmidt on Iran
Pierre Goldschmidt imagines a fictional conversation with a senior Iranian official that presents in lively way the arguments in his excellent talk, The Iranian Nuclear Issue: Achieving a Win-Win Diplomatic Solution. Click on the jump for the full text.
Atoms For Peace, Baby
Something from Xtranormal was embedded here. Xtranormal has since shut down. Something from Xtranormal was embedded here. Xtranormal has since shut down. Some genius created a pair of extraordinarily funny videos mocking the IAEA “super inspectors.” You may be muttering…
AP Story on “Steep” Nuclear Cuts
It’s time for the annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit featuring speeches by luminaries including Senator Jon Kyl and Representative Michael Turner, which means it is also time for a damaging (and false) leak about the Obama Administration’s nuclear policy! The Associated Press’s…