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Speaking of Foreign Secretaries… I’ve known for a while that Britain’s current incumbent, David Miliband, personally hosted a small round table on disarmament last month. Most of what I have heard has been on an off-the-record basis so I haven’t…
Apparently, Princess Sparklepony did not and will not sign the follow-on white paper to Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RRW. At least that is what Elaine Grossman reports U.S.…
So this weekend, Iran rebuffed the P5+1 “freeze-for-freeze” proposal for having meta negotiations (negotiations about negotiations) over the nuclear issue. No surprises there. But what next for the P5+1? I offer some ideas in my latest piece for The Guardian.…
The Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Program is always looking for interns. You should more or less follow the guidelines here, but email the package to Ms. Katherine Tiedemann tiedemann [at] newamerica.net The most important thing is to have a good…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to size US nuclear forces, whether to some number of targets, or capabilities or with some other metric. (Hint: some other metric.) More on that soon, but I wanted to share a…
A former Malmstrom missileer writes to say that 3-4 TE rollovers over 25-30 years “seems about right, it’s definitely not something that happens every day.” From what I recall of TE emplacements (I was a missileer so not really an…
This time, a truck carrying a MMIII booster overturned on a gravel road in North Dakota: A truck carrying a rocket booster for an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile tipped over on a northwestern North Dakota road on Thursday,…
Sorry I’ve been so absent lately. I’ve just been really, really, really busy. Anyway, James and Andy have done a wonderful job in the interim. The Japanese have raided yet another business — Horkos, based un-ironically in Hiroshima Prefecture —…
