Talking Tough to Iran
That’s the title of a short piece published today that the UK Guardian asked me to write on Obama’s proposed Iran policy, about which I have very nice things to say.
2008
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India Safeguards Agreement Stinks
I have a copy of the India-specific safeguards agreement, IAEA/2008/30. Here is the full-text. The word “perpetuity” appears not once. The section on termination of safeguards states that termination “shall be implemented taking into account the provisions of GOV/1621 (20…
Who Rules Iran?
A few weeks ago I attended a day-long pow-wow here in DC on U.S. policy towards Iran. Mehrzad Boroujerdi, an associate professor at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and director of its Middle Eastern Studies Program, gave an incisive,…
Mullen's Message for Israel
Avner Cohen asks an interesting question about a speech in Tel Aviv by Tony Cordesman. Cordesman told audiences that Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman ot the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was delivering a message when he said that Israel did not…
India update
Over the last year or so the Indian communist parties (Marxist and otherwise) have made a valiant attempt to block the US-India nuclear deal. I don’t think the Communists and I agree on why the US-India deal is a Bad…
Lame Duckitude
It is interesting watching the maneuvering among various countries as the Bush Administration comes to an end. Indian PM Manmohan Singh decides to make a last push at the US-India nuclear deal. Iranian Foreign Minister indicates that, rather than a…
More on the NORK declaration
I’m back from Wye now. The (fairly awful) photo is of Jeffrey, Wonk alum Jane Vaynman and me. It turns out that Jane and I have the same all-time favourite Foreign Affairs article: the one on monkey sex. In my…
Von Hippel on Albright
Frank Von Hippel posted a comment in defense of David Albright which emphasizes the most important point — that the most important credential is one’s work. And by that standard, David is invaluable. The comment is buried on the website…
Minimum Deterrence
Greetings from Aspen Institute’s Wye River Conference Center on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. James Acton and I are on a panel together, talking about nuclear weapons and nonproliferation. I was, a few months ago, at a conference where a grand old…
Ritter v. Albright
Did anyone else see Scott Ritter’s deeply personal attack on David Albright? It is high time the mainstream media began dealing with David Albright for what he is (a third-rate reporter and analyst), and what he isn’t (a former U.N.…