My iPhone didn’t really handle handle the tropical sun very well, but you get the idea — it’s a wonk’s life. I am here for a meeting co-hosted by the Stanley Foundation and the Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais, entitled…
As I drove home last night after my class at Georgetown, I happened to hear the second installment in Mike Shuster’s excellent three part series on the completed effort by the US and Kazakhstan to shut down Kazakhstan’s BN-350 plutonium…
As Thanksgiving approaches, for Americans our thoughts naturally turn to turkey. But since this is an arms control blog, our thoughts turn to Turkey — the country. The United States is pressing Turkey on the issue of missile defense at…
Although many of you already know this, I have moved over to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, where I will direct the East Asia Nonproliferation Program. I am tremendously excited by the new challenge. Bill Potter has steadily built CNS…
After further review, the new joint UK-France nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship effort is little less effing baffling than before. We now have the full text of the Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the…
Colum Lynch is reporting and blogging that China has droppped its opposition to releasing the Report to the Security Council from the Panel of Experts established Pursuant to Resolution 1874 (2009): The U.N. Security Council was preparing Tuesday to release…
This only looks like a missile contrail; but it is really a jet. A jet contrail from December 31, via Contrail Science. There are multiple hypotheses for the contrail seen near Los Angeles. But the most likely one is pretty…
Forget all the stories explaining how the election imperils the New START treaty. The elections matter, but not quite in the way you think. The real threat to the New START treaty is now from the nuclear-weapons complex — comprising …
Yesterday, I noted that the centerpiece of the UK-France agreement to cooperate on nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship was to be a new radiography facility at Valduc, called EPURE. Today, a few more details are available. It appears that the facility…
The UK and France have signed a Defense and Security Cooperation Agreement (English|French) that provides, among other things, for common stockpile stewardship activities: 7. We have decided: [snip] b) to collaborate in the technology associated with nuclear stockpile stewardship in…
