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This is DJ Shadow. His “Midnight in a Perfect World” contains is one of many pop culture references to The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist’s “Doomsday Clock” that tracks the level of nuclear danger in the world. (Jeffrey adds: Paul…
Paul Kerr reminds me why Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill remains my favorite US diplomat: Q: Can’t you at least get a Yongbyon freeze? That would seem to be a… HILL: Oh, you…
Truthiness is so popular that calling attention to it is almost trite. Soooo 2006. But I’ll indulge just this once. A recent LA Times op-ed comments on the Times of London article about secret Israeli plans to strike Iran if…
Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security “Space Based” Bob Joseph is set to leave the State Department: Good jobs opening up at the State Department. Buzz is Robert Joseph, undersecretary for arms control and international security, is…
Paul notes that, like, you could also check out hisawesome blog while I am away. But you were already doing that anyway, right? Oh, and I stole that line about wonks wrong about Iraq WMD sitting in the corner and…
Hey all, I am off to Colorado Springs for the Center for Space and Defense Studies Second Forum on Space and Defense Studies. I went last year, and had a blast. Not clear to me why the good people at…
Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger profile Linton Brooks in Slate, concluding: The critics were right: Linton Brooks failed to fix the labs, but who can? Like Charlie Brown in his eternal quest to kick the football, we wonder if Brooks…
Jackie Shire and I are on blogging heads TV. I look like a space alien, but whatever.
Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman has fired NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks. NNSA Deputy Administrator Tom D’Agostino will serve as acting Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator. Linton Brooks is a fine public servant getting a raw deal. Bodman cited…
We were discussing the origin of the widespread claim that Japan is “six months” from a bomb—and the earliest scholarly reference I could find was Richard Halloran’s Chrysanthemum and Sword Revisited: Is Japanese Militarism Resurgent. Halloran argues: Japan also has…
