Norks Threaten Nuke Test
Nice to wake up to. Reuters, via CNN, has part of of the North Korean FM statement. Here’s the scary part: Firstly, the field of scientific research of the DPRK will in the future conduct a nuclear test under the…
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Ice-T and DPRK
Decibel Magazine has an interview with Ice-T where he discusses, among other topics, some current foreign policy issues. It’s pretty sweet. Here’s what he had to say about the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the status of North Korea’s…
What Price, Peace?
The New York University Law School Magazine contains “a rare in-depth profile of Mohamed ElBaradei (LL.M. ’71, J.S.D. ’74, LL.D. ’04), who runs the International Atomic Energy Agency.” The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner believes that, to forestall violence, the…
jumpSTART
Hey folks, sorry for the long absence. Xiamen is fantastic … much more exciting than the blue glow of my laptop. What little time I’ve spent online has been sunk on my book, a forthcoming article and, you know, managing…
The Boyz From Princeton
Alex Glaser and Scott Kemp (above) gave a talk on Gas Centrifuges and the future of nonproliferation at Tsinghua University, with Li Bin as host. The talk was cool, but the diagram of the centrifuge is HOT, supplanting the very…
NPR on Iran Intel
NPR had a good segment [Via Laura Rozen ] earlier today about, among other things, the Pentagon’s new Iran desk. It notes that several of its staffers worked for OSD’s Office of Special Plans. [FYI, one of those staffers, Abram…
India and the MTCR
In the July 2005 joint statement with President Bush, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh committed India to “harmonization and adherence to Missile Technology Control Regime. The House legislation to implement the US-India nuclear deal: (more) would terminate exports of nuclear…
Israeli FM on Iranian Nukes
I mentioned in this post earlier that Negroponte was asked about Israeli estimates RE: Iran’s nuclear potential. I neglected to mention that Tzipi Livni, Israel’s Foreign Minister was on CNN this weekend discussing that very topic: BLITZER: How much time…
DNI on Iran Nuclear Estimate
I missed this when it came out a couple of weeks ago. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte told NPR that the IC’s estimate regarding Iran’s nuclear program is the same as it was a year ago. He said: MR.…
Well, Come to Beijing!
So said the sign at the aiport (above). I will be in Beijing all this week, then moving down to Xiamen for a few days. I never thought I would miss the smell of pollution, but, when I stepped off…