Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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What is it about the New START treaty’s Bilateral Consultative Commission that seems to stir up such paranoia on the right-wing? Jack Goldsmith and Jeremy Rabkin, two conservative legal scholars, have what at first glance to be the most boring…
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That’s about the level of the rhetoric these days surrounding the new State Department “compliance” report. Although the Compliance Report (properly, Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments) isn’t strictly speaking part of the…
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Or, Chillax About the China Military Power Report. Five Republican Senators — John Cornyn, John McCain, James Risch, Pat Roberts and James Inhofe — have written a letter suggesting that the Department of Defense is deliberately delaying the annual Report…
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On Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending the American Ensemble Theater’s production of Less Blessing’s A Walk In The Woods — a play about the relationship between an American arms control negotiator and his Soviet counterpart that was (very)…
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According to the IAEA website, the IAEA and OECD will release Uranium 2009: Resources, Production and Demand — the “Red Book” — tomorrow with a press conference. The Red Book is an essential resource if you want a handy estimate…
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As you can see, we have a spiffy new website, thanks to Greg at hexive and the Ploughshares Fund. (I also want to add a special note of thanks for Derek de Jong, aka Stratwonk, for many many hours of…
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Does the Obama Administration’s National Security Strategy signal a policy shift that in effect drops the condition that Iran suspend its enrichment related activities as a precondition for negotiations? Stephanie Cooke, Uranium Intelligence Weekly’s editor, thinks so: Speaking of Iran,…
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Readers know that I like arguments. Senator Lugar has been making a very good argument about New START and so-called “tactical” nuclear weapons, which are not covered by any strategic arms reduction treaty. Opponents, like Governor Romney, have pointed to…
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I was trying to figure out how to mock this terrible, terrible, terrible Mitt Romney op-ed on New START without calling Fred Hiatt a “neocon hack job” (again). But Peter Crail, on my Facebook wall, said it much better than…
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With Olli Heinonen’s resignation as IAEA Deputy Director General for Safeguards, questions are naturally turning to “Why did he leave?” and “Who will replace him?” I think the answers are: Because it was time for him to move on, and…
