Category: administrivia

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Samore, Fitzpatrick on Iran

Yesterday, we had a pretty full room and Voice of America’s Persian TV service to hear Gary Samore talk about “Countering a Nuclear-Armed Iran”. The audio for the event is online. Gary was pretty pessimistic about the current course of…

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Gary Samore Today At New America

I am hosting Gary Samore today for a talk at 3:00pm, on what to do if diplomacy fails to persuade Iran to suspend enrichment. Should be a heck of a show. Countering a Nuclear-Armed Iran Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:00…

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Say My Name

From Ashley Tellis’ article in Survival entitled, China’s Military Space Strategy: US policymakers, too, were aware of the preparations leading up to the test as well as its successful outcome but, after considerable internal deliberations, chose to keep silent. A…

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Greetings from Mianyang

Thats me — along with Gregory Kulacki, Lisbeth Gronlund and Stephen Young from the Union of Concerned Scientists — standing under a statue of Deng Jiaxian, who designed China’s first nuclear weapon. Oh, and apologies for not blogging this Syrian…

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More on that Bogus BM-25 Pic

Last week, I wrote that Space Daily tried to pass off a picture of a Russian missile as the “BM-25” which may or may not be North Korea’s newest IRBM. Anatoly Zak writes in to confirm that he took the…

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Geeks and Wonks, Working Together

I am reminded of that Old Onion headline: Gaywads, Dorkwads Sign Historic Wad Accord. Anyway. About a week ago Greg broadcast a request for some website help. Six brave volunteers have managed to crank out a years worth of updates…

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Technical Issues

I’m having some technical issues right now with the Wonk feed. Hopefully I’ll have the problems resolved for you all very shortly. Update: I think the feed’s back online. Please post any remaining issues in the comments of this post…

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Remembering Louis Martin

You may know that Matt Martin – a program officer at the Stanley Foundation, an occasional guest blogger here at Arms Control Wonk.com, and my friend – lost his father, Louis Martin last week under terrible circumstances. The family asks…

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Big Throwdown At the Big Hunt Thursday

Just a friendly little reminder that Jane and I are throwing a little blog-tastic happy hour at the Big Hunt tomorrow. 1345 Connecticut Ave., NW, near the Dupont Circle Metro (South Exit) I’ll probably get there around six or so.…

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Greetings from Los Alamos

Update: Oh yeah, if any readers in the Los Alamos area would like to grab a cocktail on Friday evening, e-mail me! Speaking of fancy conferences, I am attending one of the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues conferences. Harold Agnew…