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A potentially interesting development in the whole Iran thing… The next issue of Jane’s International Defence Review (available from here for subscribers) contains an article by Mark Harrington in which he says: Documents shown exclusively to Jane’s indicate that Iran…
I’ve read Chinese Military Power and I don’t agree that it says China increased the size of its nuclear force by 1/3. When I do the math, I get basically 110-160 warheads — about the same size as last year…
Readers, we have failed you. From 4 February to 7 March one of the Wonk’s favourite events in the entire nuclear calendar took place and we didn’t even comment on it… yes, that’s right, Miss Atom 2008. We can but…
How’d you like to make 10 Large writing about nonproliferation? Well, let me introduce you to the Doreen and Jim McElvany 2008 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest: The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and The Nonproliferation Review are pleased to…
I was on a panel today at a CNS lunch to discuss Hugh Gusterson’s article in The Nonproliferation Review, entitled Paranoid Potbellied Stalinist Gets Nuclear Weapons: How the U.S. Print Media Cover North Korea. As you might imagine, Hugh is…
I’m currently doing some reading on nuclear power in the Middle East. As is my (and many Wonk readers) wont I like trying to find the places I read about on Google Earth. Finding Inshas, Egypt’s nuclear research centre, has…
The headline from the press release of a new BBC World Service poll reads Declining Support for Tough Measures against Iran’s Nuclear Program: Global Poll. This poll is flawed and should be interpreted with caution. First, some background. The poll…
A week or so ago, the Washington Post printed a story by Joby Warrick and Colum Lynch about Olli Heinonen’s briefing to the IAEA Board of Governors on weaponization work in Iran. Warrick and Lynch, apparently, had the notes of…
Rob Edwards in New Scientist writes about a material called FOGBANK, which is used in US nuclear weapons such as the W76. (Ian Sample in the Guardian also picked it up.) Edwards’s article contains some speculation on the use of…
As part of the Wonk’s public service role, let me bring to your attention an outstanding resource letter, “Physics and Society: Nuclear Arms Control”, that was published by Alex Glaser and Zia Mian in the January edition of the American…
