Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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I came across an interesting letter (full text) from then-Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. The letter was Bodman’s parting shot — he cc’d then Energy Secretary-designate Steven Chu — on nuclear weapons modernization. (Chu…
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I’ve been working for weeks on a couple of posts, including one on FOGBANK. As a result, I’ve neglected a bunch important things including the fantastic article that Benn Tannenbaum and Francis Slakey (aka T-Baum and Slake) wrote about the…
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Greetings from Europe! A little Euroblogging from the Thalys train — I am traveling from Den Haag to Paris. My final destination is the South of France, where I am joining a tour of France’s decommissioned fissile material production facilities…
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It’s come to this. We will try to integrate the tweets into the site down the road, but for the three people in the world who might be interested: http://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk
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This is major league weird and a significant coup for WikiLeaks. Walter Griffin, of the Bangor Daily News, reports: James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of…
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It’s out! We now know that the Obama NSC has named it’s National Security Council-related directives Presidential Policy Directives or PPDs — thanks to Steve Aftergood who has posted a copy of PPD-1. I am mildly obsessed by this topic…
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Pollack the Wit — no relation to Joe — links to KCNA’s announcement that “preparations for launching experimental communications satellite Kwangmyongsong-2 by means of delivery rocket Unha-2 are now making brisk headway …” I observe no references, prior to February…
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I wanted to talk about Joby Warrick’s story, Iran Easing Aspects Of Nuclear Program, Report Cites Lag at Centrifuge Facility. A senior UN official told journalists that Iran has slowed installation of a second module of 3,000 centrifuges: “The pace…
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Yesterday, my cynicism got the better of me. I expressed doubt that anyone in the press compared the two IAEA reports, concluding that someone in either the IAEA or one of the missions was putting a little pressure on the…
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I failed to mention Bob Zarate is having an event for his Wohlstetter book at the Hudson Institute on Monday: The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) and Hudson Institute invite you to participate in a seminar panel presentation “Albert and…
