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Arms Control Wonk Reader Ben Mayer—a computer science PhD student at the University of Minnesota—attended a talk by William Priedhorsky, Chief Scientist in the International, Space and Response Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory on Remote Detection of Nuclear Proliferation:…
Apparently, China’s Second Artillery uses Powerpoint, too. Paul Eckert of Reuters has a decent article on Secretary Rumsfeld’s visit to the Second Artillery HQ in Qinghe. Big events were a PP briefing on the “organization and mission” of the Deuce…
Just be glad this post doesn’t have a picture. Working at a public policy school—where most of the students are studying environmental or social policy issues—is a daily testament to the social divide between domestic and security policy communities. Now,…
Jofi Joseph asks that churlish question, and a few others, in a Defense News (subscription only) op-ed about Six Party talks: The oft-repeated mantra for U.S. diplomats in 2003 and 2004 was this magical phrase: complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement,…
Ann Scott Tyson of the Washington Post reports that Secretary Rumsfeld will “for the first time to visit the headquarters of China’s most secretive military command, the Second Artillery Corps … at Qinghe outside Beijing… (right).” The news reports are…
The National Security Archive has obtained (through FOIA) Intelligence and Analysis on Iraq: Issues for the Intelligence Community, the third of the three reviews into the Iraq WMD debacle led by former CIA Deputy Director Richard Kerr: The report, from…
Listen to “The Admiral” from the At Action Park LP. Some large portion of my mis-spent youth in Illinois was soundtracked by minimalist post-punk Chicago noise-rockers Shellac. Central to Shellac’s seminal first LP, At Action Park, was the magisterial “The…
I attended the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues breakfast with General John Gordon, former NNSA Administrator. Everything was off-the-record, but General Gordon did mention a few stories that were in his 2001 congressional testimony, which can be shared. Arguing about…
The Guardian reports that a 2003 MI5 document, Companies and Organisations of Proliferation Concern, identifies more than 360 private companies, university departments and government organisations in eight countries as having “procured goods and/or technology for weapons of mass destruction programmes.”…
Jacqueline Shire has has a written a kind profile of our little blog at ABC News.com: Policy wonks come in all varieties, and those who follow arms control and weapons proliferation comprise their own unique tribe. Armscontrolwonk.com is the blog…
