Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Yesterday, I tweeted some big news from the Carnegie Conference: DepSecState Steinberg announced that Biden will be responsible for overseeing START Follow-on and CTBT ratification. I had heard rumors to that effect — hey, he is the former Chairman of…
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These things are endurance tests. I’ve been twittering the interesting stuff, from Linton Brooks saying the US should ratify the CTBT to Rich Mies endorsing a declaratory posture of last resort. So are other folks. If you find people, post…
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I am excited, as always, to be seeing so many old friends at the Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference, even if this year’s agenda leaves me a little cold. Maybe I am just overreacting to the keynote address by Anne Lauvergeon, Chief…
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This plot from Google Earth shows the announced splashdown zones and the locations of the splashdowns from a story in the Yomiuri. Credit: David Wright. Based on where the second stage fell, it is clear that the North Korean satellite…
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I am off to Cambridge for less than 24 hours to participate in a workshop entitled, “Getting to Zero: US and Chinese Perspectives on Near Term Cooperative Steps to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons.” I’ve been spending a lot…
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This bit of wit ended up in my inbox, by way of Nathan Pyles: ADVANCEMENT IN NUCLEAR FORENSICS AP – On April 1, 2009 the Department of Energy (DOE) will announce a tremendous advancement in the science of nuclear weapons…
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The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies has published a new occasional paper published by (Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament Occasional Paper No. 15, Cristina Hansell and William C. Potter, eds.) that includes a commissioned paper by yours…
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I’ve been struggling to say something witty about the race to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as IAEA Director-General. Mark Heinrich at Reuters sums it up pretty well: The International Atomic Energy Agency failed to agree on a new chief on Friday,…
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At the end of an article about the National Academies glossary project, Lionel Beehner in SEED Magazine mentions the trouble that beset the translation of my book into Chinese: That means translation will likely remain a sensitive and sometimes contentious…
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The blog-o-sphere is all worked up over an op-ed (in German) by Hans Rühle claiming that Iran funded Syria’s Al Kibar reactor. Central to Rühle’s stardom is the credence lent to his claims by his former position — he is…
