Janne Nolan, Me on Next NPR
Janne Nolan — author of the pretty amazing An Elusive Consensus — is giving a talk on the 2009 Nuclear Posture Review, tomorrow (Tuesday), at a Security for a New Century event on the Hill. I am joining her, which…
Category: administrivia
Blog Of Note: Atomic City Underground
If you followed the arrest of the Roy Lee Oakley — the Oak Ridge contractor who took a couple of broken sections of a gaseous diffusion barrier home and tried to sell them rather ineptly to France (no, I can’t…
Curveball!
I am so psyched that, tomorrow, we have Bob Drogin coming to talk about his awesome book, Curveball. Wild Pitch: Curveball and Selling the Iraq War In 1999, a mysterious Iraqi applied for political asylum in Munich. The young chemical…
A Thanksgiving Follow-Up
By the way, this whole Kitty Hawk visit fiasco just breaks my heart. Holding aside the bureaucratic bungling that led China to approve, then cancel, and then — too late — finally permit the Kitty Hawk to visit Hong Kong…
On Terrorism, Nuclear and Not
Sorry for the light posting — I almost finished a post on whether or not Pakistani nuclear weapons have permissive actions links, but just plain ran out of time. Anyway, I need to strap on my tie, head over to…
Bloggingheads with Jackie
My diavlog with Jackie Shire from ISIS is on the site. I model that “Get Il” shirt at the beginning of the Nork Segment.
Why'd They Do It?
Gregory Kulacki and I are giving a talk about the Chinese ASAT test at the Carnegie Endowment. Short version: There is no message for us. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace invites you to attend A Different View of China’s…
Hangin' At CISAC
Just finished my talk on China’s nuclear forces at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) conference on “P-5 Nuclear Doctrines and Article VI.” I am sitting two chairs from Bill Perry, for whom Stanford is throwing an…
Scheduled Maintenance
The Wonk Engine is getting some scheduled maintenance this weekend. Additionally, user comments will be disabled for 24 hours or so while we make a transition to a new server (we’re moving from FreeBSD to OpenSolaris for the curious geek…
Nuclear Black and Gray Market
David Isenberg has a cool new blog devoted to the nuclear black (and gray) market — and, in particular, you know who … Check it out.