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Paul Kerr
Writing on ACW 2004–2021 · 161 posts
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Khan Network: Steve Coll in New Yorker
As far as I can tell, the New Yorker hasn’t posted Steve Coll’s piece on the Khan network yet, but they have a Q&A transcript on their website that’s worth checking out. This excerpt about the time frame for an…
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UNSC Iran Resolution
Here’s a copy of UNSC resolution 1696. Qatar didn’t vote for it…everyone else did. Here are the three most important paragraphs: “7. Requests by 31 August a report from the Director General of the IAEA primarily on whether Iran has…
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WaPo on Secret BW Lab
I love this part of today’s BW piece by Joby Warrick: Current and former administration officials say that compliance with the treaty hinges on intent, and that making small amounts of biowarfare pathogens for study is permitted under a broad…
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Note to CFR.org: BBC China =/= PSI Op
Eben Kaplan wrote a piece a few weeks ago about the PSI. Overall, it’s not bad. But it contains an all-too-frequent error. He wrote: Among the PSI’s most notable successes was the 2003 interception of a shipment of nuclear centrifuge…
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Always Trust Everyone
The President of Pakistan has repeatedly said that Pakistan is not making a bomb and has no intention of making a bomb. We have not only made this commitment solemnly, we are prepared also to accept international safeguards on a…
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Department of Wankery
The House approved this atrocity yesterday. Great first day back from vacation. But since the deal will strengthen the nonproliferation regime and definitely has nothing to do with campaign contributions, selling weapons to India, or containing China, I’m not worried.…
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Just Saying
I think it’s reasonable to believe that countrires’ adherence to a treaty at least suggests that they agree with its basic tenets. By that measure, here is the number of countries, apart from India, who believe that New Delhi should…
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HIRC Markup, US-India Nuclear Deal
Possible demise of the NPT being broadcast now… Just remember that the NPT doesn’t include the phrase “unless the US says so.” Update I forgot to mention that comments containing the phrases “nuclear apartheid” or ”[reference to arms controllers] ayatollahs”…
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Snakes on the Six Party Talks
While the usual suspects fantasize in their collective right-wing whack-shack about a North Korean ballistic missile test, a working GMD, etc., it would be useful to take a look at what North Korea’s MFA said 1 June. The fact that…