Baikal 1
As I drove home last night after my class at Georgetown, I happened to hear the second installment in Mike Shuster’s excellent three part series on the completed effort by the US and Kazakhstan to shut down Kazakhstan’s BN-350 plutonium…
November 2010
25 posts
Everett McKinley Dirksen, He Ain’t
Jon Kyl has become the second ranking Republican Senator by dint of hard work, perseverance, and attention to detail – all admirable traits. He has never voted for an arms control treaty transmitted to the Senate by a Democratic President.…
Musings on Turkey
As Thanksgiving approaches, for Americans our thoughts naturally turn to turkey. But since this is an arms control blog, our thoughts turn to Turkey — the country. The United States is pressing Turkey on the issue of missile defense at…
Best Quips Competition
This post is geared to the silent majority of ACW readers who refrain from commenting on what they read on this site. So let’s try something new: The first annual ACW Best Quips about the Bomb Contest. (Unless this experiment…
Moving On!
Although many of you already know this, I have moved over to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, where I will direct the East Asia Nonproliferation Program. I am tremendously excited by the new challenge. Bill Potter has steadily built CNS…
Par TEUTATES!
After further review, the new joint UK-France nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship effort is little less effing baffling than before. We now have the full text of the Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the…
John Bolton’s Bizarro World
As anyone who follows foreign policy and national security issues knows, officials from past presidential administrations have a way of somehow remaining relevant, regardless of their area of expertise — or, in some cases, their total lack of expertise. No…
North Korea Sanctions Report
Colum Lynch is reporting and blogging that China has droppped its opposition to releasing the Report to the Security Council from the Panel of Experts established Pursuant to Resolution 1874 (2009): The U.N. Security Council was preparing Tuesday to release…
It Ain’t No Thing
This only looks like a missile contrail; but it is really a jet. A jet contrail from December 31, via Contrail Science. There are multiple hypotheses for the contrail seen near Los Angeles. But the most likely one is pretty…
The Long March II
It’s never a good sign when the United States votes in lonely isolation at the United Nations. This can only mean one of three things: that the rest of the world is spineless, or that the White House is obtuse…
