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Tom Schelling has won the Nobel Prize in economics! Just fantastic news. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selected Tom and Robert Aumann, a mathematician at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, for “The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory…
Chris Matthews—in his “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment—was shocked (shocked!) when Andrea Mitchell learned that the United States had intercepted Mohamed ElBaradei’s telephone conversations as part of the campaign to oust him. Clarence Page looked aghast. Under what…
A few months ago, David Albright and Corey Hinderstein wrote a very interesting article, “Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks,” in The Washington Quarterly that contained some previously upublished information about that Chinese nuclear weapons design that…
… the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Excerpt from the Will of Alfred…
Look for Siobhan Gorman of the Baltimore Sun to break some big intelligence stories out of the DNI’s office in future—she gives DDNI General Michael V. Hayden some sugary lovin’ in a classic beat sweetner today: Michael V. Hayden sets…
Michael Roston adds to the list of reasons that John Bolton was a lousy Undersecretary of State—apparently he held up efforts to secure Iraqi scientists after Operation Iraqi Freedom: Regular readers of Arms Control Wonk know that the pro-international institution…
Picking up comments by Ambassador Hill at the Foreign Press Center (still not on the website), Peter Baker and Glenn Kessler report in the Washington Post that the Bush Administration plans “to push North Korea to begin disclosing the extent…
A former Department of State told Paul Kerr that “North Korea has probably imported enough components for 3,000-5,000 centrifuges and may have acquired enough for 6,000-7,000.” Whether those components have been assembeled into centrifuges or whether North Korea can make…
Scott Gearity meets Kafka.
Dave Ruppe in Global Security Newswire reports “the U.S. State Department this month quietly began implementing a major reorganization plan to eliminate its arms control and nonproliferation bureaus, despite a U.S. Senate hold on the plan…” Congressional Staff seem bewildered…
