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General Zhu Chenghu (below, right), Dean of the Defense College at the Chinese National Defense University (Guofang Daxue), told a group of Hong Kong journalists including the Financial Times’s Alexandra Harney that China might use nuclear weapons first in a…
Greetings from Arms Control Wonk, Beijing Office. A Chinese General shoots off his mouth and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board releases the Report of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure Task Force. There is too much to do, and I…
Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan (right, with the Il-iminator) is wrapping up a two day visit to Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il reportedly told Tang that “the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was the behest of President Kim Il Sung.” Kim also…
Can’t anybody in the US intelligence community speak Chinese? Gregory Kulacki—the man who caught DIA repeating a hoax about a parasite microsatellite that was posted on a Chinese bulletin board—has caught another US intelligence entity just making shit up. Well,…
What does Srebrenica have to do with arms control? Well arms control and other cooperative security approaches efficiently solve security dillemmas, freeing up resources for dealing with real security threats that kill people every day like civil conflict and terrorism.…
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory comprises 192 lasers that will use inertial confinement to conduct nuclear weapons and fusion experiments. The project is the largest facility ever constructed at Livermore. For the technically inclined, three…
Hameed Gul is Nuts. Pervez Hoodby—writing in the Los Angeles Times’ “Current” section —gets alarmist in service of a good argument: In a recent televised debate between myself and Hameed Gul — an influential Islamist leader, retired general and former…
The Chinese served steak and cheesecake to Assistant Secretary Hill and Deputy Foreign Minister Kim, sayeth Joel Brinkley at the New York Times.
Maybe it was the duck, but North Korea is willing to attend Six Party Talks in Beijing the week of July 25. A senior administration official traveling with Secretary Rice told Joel Brinkley at the New York Times that North…
Dominic Gates at the Seattle Times obtained a draft letter from the State Department to Boeing, notifying the company that Foggy Bottom “has prepared civil charges against Boeing alleging 94 violations of the Arms Control Act because the company sold…
