Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Readers may remember when I popped over to Yverdon-Les-Bains this summer to attend an EastWest Institute Meeting on Reframing Nuclear De-Alert. It was a very interesting meeting with an outstanding cast of characters. Oh, and thermal baths. The estimable Walter…
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Travis Sharp avails himself of the opportunity to use a statement by the new Japanese Foreign Minister to take a swipe at the PONI blog: Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada on Sunday called on the United States to make a…
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Loyal readers may know John Mueller, who holds the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at The Ohio State University. (I know, that’s so awesome.) Mueller is rather less worried than I about an instance of nuclear terrorism —…
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In meetings over the past few weeks, I have heard repeated references to the wonderful 1983 essay Deterrence and Reassurance by the late Michael Howard. Point of fact — Sir Michael Howard is not dead. But with the way in…
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Last week, the Senate Republican Policy Committee released this execrable document, START: Do Time Extension Instead of a Bad Treaty, on the New START treaty. Today, I finagled a copy of a memo that Senator Kyl’s staff has distrubuted in…
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The Russians have made a lot of noise about the possibility that advanced conventional weapons in the US arsenal place their nuclear forces at risk and, as a corollary, that certain capabilities should be included in future arms control negotiations.…
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Update | 11:39 am 2 October I apologize that I cannot figure out how to turn off the autoplay. Am posting the code in the comments — suggestions appreciated. *** Well, the PRC October 1 National Day Parade came and…
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I am unable to turn off the autoplay, so you’ll have to click here for the post on the DF-31As in the Chinese National Day Parade: https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/2485/df-31as-on-parade You’ll want to turn your volume way, way down.
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As many of you know, my lovely wife Jill is taking a government job so she can be read in to intelligence compartments that I can’t even dream about. From now on, at dinner, Jill will just sit quietly, thinking…
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Well, I guess Mark Hibbs isn’t going to be getting a building pass to the VIC. That VIC, of course, is the Vienna International Center, home to the IAEA. Hibbs has a long piece on the vicious infighting within the…
