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Five retired military strategists from key NATO countries — including Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Pres. Clinton and former NATO commander — have authored a manifesto on NATO’s future saying among other things that: The first…
A couple of days ago, U.S. Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea Jay Lefkowitz falsely claimed that the Administration was reviewing its support for the Six Party talks, announcing that “It is appropriate now to reevaluate – to…
This is a question that was discussed at a couple of meetings I attended last year. In the short-term, the objective is of course to get plutonium out of the reactor and into wet storage ASAP. Presumably, however, the US…
The Monopoly House on Euphrates Ave. is about 15 meters tall, or at least that is what one reader working from the angle of the sun calculates. Check out that and other good stuff in the comments.
I’ve noticed some confusion among folks about the disablement process in North Korea — let’s make this very, very clear. All of the disablement steps are believed completed save for the unloading of fuel, which was delayed by the need…
I came across this really cool resource today and thought I’d share it with my fellow wonks. It’s the complete library of reports prepared by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, with links to the full text of each report.…
I’m tickled pink that my brief comment about the purpose of arms control in a recent post has already provoked debate. I think some of you are expecting me to argue to that, now the Cold War has ended, arms…
Readers have asked me what I think of this story by Bill Broad on Syria’s decision to reconstruct a building on the foundations of the the “Box-on-the-Euphrates.” It has a vaulted roof now, so it looks rather like a Monopoly-House-on-the-Euphrates.…
So says the 1974 Special National Intelligence Assessment, “Prospects for further proliferation of nuclear weapons,” declassified the other day by the Bush administration. Avner Cohen and William Burr were able to get a portion of the document released in early…
McClatchy Newspapers’ Kevin G. Hall puts the final nail in the myth attributing “supernotes” — almost perfect counterfeit $100 bills — to North Korea. In an article titled “U.S. counterfeiting charges against N. Korea based on shaky evidence,” Hall identifies…
