AQ Khan has written an oped in which he defends his efforts to produce nuclear weapons as necessary to “save my country from Indian nuclear blackmail.” I was going to suggest SEAL Team 6 make an encore performance in Pakistan,…
As I noted on Sunday, I was in Brussels to attend a meeting hosted by the Carnegie Endowment on the future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The meeting was held under the Chatham House Rule. (Interesting side note, the Chatham…
The Manichi Daily has published a series of stories about US efforts to site a spent fuel repository in Mongolia. The short version is that sources — probably in Japan — leaked more details about discussions between the Department…
Fergus Hanson at the Lowy Interpreter interviewed John Duncan, UK Permanent Represtantive to the Conference on Disarmament and charter member of the Twitterati, about the impact of new media on diplomacy. One of the questions was “whether blogs can really…
I believe NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Don Cook has provided the first open-source confirmation of rumors that the W78 warhead has a pit corrosion problem.
I am here, in the land of Tintin, for a Carnegie Endowment workshop on the future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Obviously the big question is the status of the ongoing effort to create a set of criteria to govern…
The General Accounting Office has a released a report, Nuclear Weapons: DOD and NNSA Need to Better Manage Scope of Future Refurbishments and Risks to Maintaining U.S. Commitments to NATO, on the B61 Lifetime Extension Program. Among the many, many…
“Laßt mich in Ruhe mit euren Gewissensbissen, das ist doch so schöne Physik!” –Enrico Fermi, arguing with his colleagues on the Manhattan Project about the ethical implications of developing the atomic bomb. What? I thought Enrico Fermi was Italian! And…
Reader MP sends along a picture of nine easter eggs — one for each state with nuclear weapons
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on state-to-state nuclear cooperation — especially the connection between Pakistan and North Korea. I recently reread Bamboo and Blood, by James Church (a pseudonym for one of the most distinguished North Korea…
