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Tom Hundley, foreign correspondant for the Chicago Tribune, extensively quotes former US U.S. ambassador to UN organizations in Vienna John Rich in defense of Mohamed ElBaradei: “ElBaradei is exactly the kind of person you would want in the role—someone from…
Cheryl Rofer over at Whirledview, a nice blog maintained by three persons with excellent national security bona fides, has a sensible post about dropping the total U.S. nuclear arsenal to a few hundred deployed warheads. Check it out. I would…
Jafar Dia Jafar (right), a high ranking former Iraqi nuclear scientist, has written a Norwegian-language memoir, Oppdraget (The Assignment) about his years in the Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Jafar confirms something that other Iraqi nuclear weapons scientists have suggested: “the…
We scholars of international relations often emphasize the role that large, impersonal forces play in driving policy. The habit is as old as recorded history, running all the way back to Thucydides, who said of the Peloponnesian War: The real…
The 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review. Inside Defense reports that the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) may, for the first time, evaluate nuclear as well as conventional forces. Ryan Henry, principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy, would not confirm…
AP describes one paragraph of a confidential summary of EU-Iran negotions this way: But the summary of the last meeting on the issue involving representatives of France, Britain, Germany and Iran says Tehran acknowledged what Washington and its allies have…
Reuters and AP obtained the full-text summary of the recent Iran-EU3 negotiations. The press coverage focuses on the underlying pessimism of the document, which notes: The Iranian position is obviously guided by the goal of maintaining the fuel cycle. Without…
Dave Ruppe at Global Security Newswire has a great article on how Bush and Rice are spinning the Duelfer Report. At least one media outlet decided the fact that the Bush Administration keeps blatantly lying is news. As an aside,…
The very image of reliability … Well now that Michael Roston’s called me out, I feel the need to say something about this Washington Times editorial about Egypt. In short, it’s bad for many of the same reasons as this…
He gets to keep the sweet view. Over the weekend, Dafna Linzer at the Washington Post reported that “all 15 countries approached by U.S. diplomats—including Britain, Canada and Australia—refused to support” Washington’s efforts to deny Mohamad ElBaradei a third as…
