Treaties, Numbers and Norms
Quote of the week: “An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.” – Mahatma Gandhi Let’s face it: we arms controllers are attached to the written and spoken word. Last week’s post dealt with the words used to declare…
Michael Krepon
No Use
Quote of the week: “Of course I’ve got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I’ve got em ’cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.” – Danny DeVito What’s the most sensible U.S.…
Joe Biden’s Turn
Lyrics of the week: “Rescue me Take me in your arms Rescue me I want your tender charm ‘Cause I’m lonely And I’m blue I need you And your love too Come on and rescue me” — Fontella Bass, “Rescue…
Trump’s Black Swan Song
Quote of the week: “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” — Macbeth, Shakespeare (with thanks, once more, to Greg Govan) Donald Trump leaves a trail of wreckage in his wide wake. The man is not well.…
Failures of Imagination
Lyric of the week: “I sit alone at home and cry over youWhat can I doCan’t help myselfCause baby it’s youBaby it’s you You should hear what they say about you (cheat, cheat)They say, they say you never never ever…
Nuclear-Armed Rivalry in Southern Asia
Note to readers: A slightly different version of this essay appeared in the Stimson Center’s on-line magazine, South Asian Voices, the premier global platform for talented analysts to exchange views on this region’s pressing issues without invective or pat talking…
Restoring U.S. Arms Control Expertise
Quote of the week: “The best defense against partisanship is expertise.” — Roger Angell The incoming Biden administration’s damage assessments are now underway. All agencies of the executive branch have taken serious hits over the last four years and are…
Biden’s Immediate Agenda Items
Quote of the week: “It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are…
U.S. Withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty: Three Legal Issues
David Koplow is my go-to guy on arms control and treaty law. David teaches at Georgetown Law. He has previously served at the Pentagon and at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He knows whereof he speaks. David has kindly…
Adieu, Open Skies?
Lyric of the week: “Excuse me while I kiss the sky” — Jimi Hendrix Quote of the week: “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of…
