Category: administrivia

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Steve Coll to Lead New America Foundation

The New York Times has a nice write-up of New America’s upcoming leadership transition to Steve Coll, including a rather pleasant reference to my initiative on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation: Steve Coll, whose résumé as a journalist includes two Pulitzer…

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We're Back

Sorry about the long pause, folks. We are now, more or less, back to normal after an extended 4th of July weekend on the Cape. So much has happened over the past week that I need to cover: Hans Kristensen…

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Greetings from The Carnegie Conference

Well, I just settled into the balcony, plunked down 12 bucks for internet access and now George is handing out grades based on the Universal Compliance report: Obligation One: Make Nonproliferation Irreversible. D Obligation Two: Devalue the Political and Military…

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NNSA's Harvey At New America

Yesterday, I hosted John Harvey, Director of Policy Planning at NNSA, here at New America. John was a good sport—what we planned to be a 25 person brown bag lunch turned into a 75 person event that will air on…

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Greetings from Airlie Center

I’ve been attending the New America Foundation’s annual Board & Senior Staff retreat. (I forgot my camera. The beautiful image is from this Flickr photo set.) I’ve been to various meetings at Airlie over the years and positively adore the…

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Big Hunt

Just a reminder that Noah and I are going to be at the Big Hunt tonight, starting at 7: For a couple of nerds, Arms Control Wonk Jeffrey Lewis and have managed to host some pretty ragin’ parties. The next…

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Shachtman Back In Town, May 3 at Big Hunt

Noah is back on town next week, which means … we get our annual chance to watch him vomit on some unsuspecting intern’s penny loafers! Sorry kid. Welcome to Washington. The impending mayhem—which I believe is the third annual Arms…

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Verification

Andreas Persbo at VERTIC has begun a very promising blog on verification titled, sensibly enough, Verification.

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Total Wonkerr

Paul notes that, like, you could also check out hisawesome blog while I am away. But you were already doing that anyway, right? Oh, and I stole that line about wonks wrong about Iraq WMD sitting in the corner and…

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Off To Colorado Springs …

Hey all, I am off to Colorado Springs for the Center for Space and Defense Studies Second Forum on Space and Defense Studies. I went last year, and had a blast. Not clear to me why the good people at…