Category: administrivia

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Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace

Dan Plesch has an iconic logo (left) for his new book, The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace, that makes Arms Control Wonk feel strangely inadequate. I’ve only read Chapter 8, not surprisingly on disarmament. But I like what I…

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William Arkin's Code Names

Bill Arkin has published a new book, Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operations in the 9/11 World that “identifies more than 3,000 code names and details the plans and missions for which they stand.” General Charles Horner,…

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Amended Administrivia

Dammit. Shachtman over at DefenseTech.org suggests my efforts to entice my readership to join us for a drink or eight at the Fox & Hounds pub— Washington DC, next Tuesday, the 18th, starting around 8pm—weren’t exactly rousing. So let me…

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Russian Strategic Forces Blog

Pavel Podvig has added a blog to his page on Russian strategic forces. The most recent post explains why Russia will MIRV the Bulava but not the Topol-M.

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CTR Funding Restored and a little Administrivia

A proposal to cut $46 million from Cooperative Threat Reduction programs in the FY 2006 budget has been reversed. CTR will, instead, enjoy a $5 M increase in FY 2005. Or that is what I hear from contractors. [The Boston…

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Back From London

I am back from London—where the steadily escalating death toll from the Asian tsunami added a somber note to the festivities. Regular postings will resume tomorrow morning. There will be no end to the ration of crap I am going…

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Vacation

Well, folks, the UMD e-mail has been down for a couple of days and, just as it comes back tomorrow, I will be arriving in London to decompress—safely out of contact with e-mail or Bush-supporters (slim chance that I’ll run…

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Philalethes on Rumsfeld

From Bouphonia—an anonymous weblog about many random things, few of which are directly related to arms control: Don Rumsfeld is going to be taking some time out from his busy schedule, so that he can start signing death letters personally.…

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Comments

I am thinking over the whole “comments” policy. Comments on the topic of comments are welcome.