Writing on ACW 2004–2021 · 161 posts
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Thought I’d give a heads-up about a forthcoming Arms Control Today article from Wade Boese. [Obviously, I am responsible for all snarky comments.] Shockingly, Wade finds, the Bush administration has been playing a bit fast and loose with the facts…
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Steve Aftergood brought these two links (one and two) to my attention. I thought I’d add this (little-known, I think) one from the State Department. I don’t think it’s searchable, but for finding recent foreign policy-related reports, it’s wicked good.
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Pavel Podvig asked a while back about some numbers I used regarding the Ukrainian Kh-55 cruise missiles that ended up in Iran and China. I wrote: … the [missile] smugglers forged documents naming Russia as the missiles’ destination. This is…
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Tom Friedman writes: “Readers of this column know that I rarely write about nuclear proliferation.” It shows. People who know about proliferation would not write that “the solution [to proliferation] is so ridiculously obvious there isn’t much to say.” [One…
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Some relevant points on Syria and Libya’s suspected WMD programs that I’ve been meaning to post for a while. Libya I posted a while back about Bolton’s accusations that Libya was in violation of the BWC. This name-calling strategy was…
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North Korea’s FM responded to the 13 May bilateral meeting between US and DPRK officials with a positive statement: The DPRK will continue to closely follow the U.S. attitude and its stand will be officially conveyed to the U.S. side…
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It should be noted that last week’s secret US- North Korea discussions didn’t come entirely out of nowhere. In fact, North Korea has recently been suggesting such talks. While Pyongyang obviously backed away from its demands that SecState Rice apologize…
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I’ll get my .02 in. The point of the discussion RE: the Niger fiasco is that Bolton was cherry-picking intelligence. He ignored INR’s conclusions on this matter because he wanted to believe something different. The circus tent known as NRO…
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ACA Executive Director Daryl Kimball and ACA Research Director Wade Boese respond to State Department spokesman Richard Boucher’s dismissal of an ACA report by Sidney Drell and James Goodby regarding U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces. Asked about Drell and Goodby’s conclusion…
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Warren Hoge and David Sanger detect “considerable concern” that Iran will withdraw from the NPT. Perhaps. But there’s some evidence that the Iranians realize they’d be painting a target on themselves if they took such a drastic step.
