Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Amid reports that North Korea is preparing to launch another missile and fears it may conduct additional nuclear tests, KCNA has released one hell of a statement. This is going to get worse before it gets better. DPRK Foreign Ministry…
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The UK Ambassador for Multilateral Arms Control and Disarmament, John Duncan, tweeted the news: After more than a decade of deadlock the Conference of Disarmament today took the historic decision to restart work. It is so nice to have a…
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Gregory Kulacki and I often grouse about which portions of the Chinese arms control discussion get translated into English. (I grouse especially, since I can’t work in Chinese.) Gregory has taken matters into his own hands, beginning a translation project.…
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The wolves are at the doorstep of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Several months into the Obama Administration, we still don’t have a new Administrator. Part of the issue is that, in a few years, NNSA may no longer exist.…
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Ack, there is a reason I have a rule about blogging before a cup of coffee. In an earlier post, I made a math mistake (actually several, including a data entry error in a spread sheet). Anyway, here is the…
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Sorry, I hit “live” accidentally before I finished proof-reading. This one looks big(ger).
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We’ve lost Herb York. Herbert Frank York, founding chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and a world-renowned physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb as a young researcher and later championed arms control, died May 19 at Thornton…
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Joe Cirincione has a blog, which is good. He also tweets which is great. I am addicted to his morning news summary, Morning Joe.
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Another entry from Michael Krepon’s shoebox, this one from Henry Kissinger — in his days as an academic — on the right mix of offensive and defensive strategic forces: The tensions between strategic offenses and defenses has been a constant…
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The 2009/2010 College Debate Topic is about nuclear weapons. The United States should decrease its reliance on nuclear weapons. I was asked for reading suggestions. Mine are: (1) John Steinbruner, Managing Deterrent Operations, Chapter 2 of Principles of Global Security…
