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I have mocked the living hell out of this forthcoming administration follow-on white paper to <a href="https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/1587/maintaining-deterrence-in-the-21st-century. “>Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Fund the RRW). My teasing has been based, in…
Sorting out my accumulated junk that has, for the past few years, been slowly mouldering in my dad’s attic, I recently found my copy of Peter Hennessy’s brilliant The Secret State, a political history of British nuclear policy during the…
Two weeks ago, a story broke involving the arrest in Slovakia of two Hungarians and one Ukrainian for allegedly trying to peddle around 1 pound of weapons-grade highly-enriched uranium. Days later, the incident was reported as involving 481.4 grams of…
For many years, Sha Zukang was a fixture on the disarmament circuit representing China during CTBT negotiations and making the odd statement here or there to cause an international kerfuffle — like when implied that China’s no-first use pledge might…
I have to admit I’m quite surprised that my “long weekend“ post generated quite as much heated comment as it did. But that, I guess, is the pleasure of blogging on the Wonk. Anyway, now for something completely different: highly…
I hope readers are enjoying having James and Andy around — with Iran on the front burner and Jane knee-deep in textbooks and problems sets, I figured I could use the help. Among other things, this frees me up to…
Greetings Arms Control Wonk readers. I am yet another pasty, dark-haired contributor. I normally wear glasses too, but Jeffrey asked for a picture sans spectacles so that you could better tell us apart. I said, “Dude, your readers can look…
CAP has an interesting panel on US policy toward Iran up. Not sure if I will make it over there, but you should. Nuclear Meltdown: Rebuilding a Coherent Policy Towards Iran A book discussion with Barbara Slavin and Trita Parsi…
Regular Wonk readers will know that the question of how long it would take Japan to build the Bomb has been a subject of interest in the past. See here and here for starters. Well, we now have a new…
The China Academy of Engineering Physics has a new website. Make sure the sound is on.
