IHOP of Doom
People often ask me why, as a philosophy major, I ended up in this particular field. I was an epistemologist — someone who studied knowledge and justified belief. The art of intelligence is, in that way, a massive exercise in…
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Marisa Ann Sketo-Kirsh
You may recall Asher Karni — the Israeli citizen living in South Africa who pled guilty to assisting the Pakistani nuclear program. One of his alleged accomplices went on trial recently, according to Caryn Dolley in the Cape Times: AN…
Continuous Deterrence: Still Necessary?
I’ve had UK nuclear issues on my mind a lot recently—all sparked off by my Barcelona talk, I guess. Preparing for that talk, I spent a lot of time reading the transcript of the House of Commons Defence Committee’s enquiry…
ACT Blog
Arms Control Today has a blog to allow readers to comment on recent articles in the magazine. There is some new content as well, such as a list of ACA recommendations for Nuclear Vacation.
Miliband hosts disarmament meeting
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…
State Won't Clear Nuke Strategy Paper
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.…
Iran: More Sanctions, Better Diplomacy
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.…
Anybody Want To Be My Intern?
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…
Atomic Topiary
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…
More on that TE rollover at Minot
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…