While the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson was working on the infamous Smile LP, he heard a copy of the Beatle’s Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fearing that he couldn’t match the achievement, Wilson had a nervous breakdown, spending a…
From today’s Secrecy News: ALTERNATIVE COVER SHEETS FOR CLASSIFIED INFO While underlying questions of secrecy and disclosure carry a potent primeval charge, the actual implementation of government secrecy policy is about as boring as it could be. In a rare…
The Federation of American Scientists awards Steve Fetter—a member of my dissertation committee—the Hans A. Bethe prize … … in recognition of his outstanding contributions as an advocate for arms control and nonproliferation and for his insightful and rigorous analysis…
John Lennon said “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Life has gotten busy for me, so I am calling in two awesome guest bloggers, Michael Katz-Hyman of the Stimson Center and Victoria Samson of…
I’ll be on MSNBC Live tomorrow (Saturday) at 10:45 a.m. to talk about Iran. Any suggestions?
Joe Cirincione has asked me to blog the 2005 Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference along with Hans Kristensen, Pavel Podvig and Paul Kerr. The Nonproliferation Conference is always an interesting experience for me because I tend to think the nonproliferation community overstates…
Just be glad this post doesn’t have a picture. Working at a public policy school—where most of the students are studying environmental or social policy issues—is a daily testament to the social divide between domestic and security policy communities. Now,…
Jacqueline Shire has has a written a kind profile of our little blog at ABC News.com: Policy wonks come in all varieties, and those who follow arms control and weapons proliferation comprise their own unique tribe. Armscontrolwonk.com is the blog…
Tom Schelling has won the Nobel Prize in economics! Just fantastic news. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selected Tom and Robert Aumann, a mathematician at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, for “The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory…
… the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Excerpt from the Will of Alfred…
