New START Hearings
Greetings from (not so) sunny San Diego. I hope the people back east are enjoying the sweltering heat. I just finished the first of three weeks at the UCSD IGCC Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Summer Training Program. But, last…
2010
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Zombie China-Pak Nuke Deal
The deal where China sells Pakistan two additional nuclear power reactors, while not as epically zombie-tastic as the Iranian fuel swap, does tend to ebb and flow a fair amount. James noted its most recent rise and fall in late…
Indian Strategic Culture
The fabric of any country is woven from many threads, and no country has a greater thread count than India. Some strands are more apparent than others, and a discerning eye can find patterns that evoke the key elements of…
Pu Waste & Hanford
Way back in 2004, workers began carefully excavating several burial grounds near the Hanford Site’s 300 Area. One of their discoveries had the feel of an archeological find: A safe was encountered during the excavation of the 618-2 Burial Ground…
South Korea’s “Main Enemy”
In the last few years, South Korea has gone back and forth over whether to describe the North as “the main enemy.” At one level, the words are immaterial; it’s painfully obvious whose army is lined up on the other…
IAEA/OECD Red Book
According to the IAEA website, the IAEA and OECD will release Uranium 2009: Resources, Production and Demand — the “Red Book” — tomorrow with a press conference. The Red Book is an essential resource if you want a handy estimate…
And We’re Back
As you can see, we have a spiffy new website, thanks to Greg at hexive and the Ploughshares Fund. (I also want to add a special note of thanks for Derek de Jong, aka Stratwonk, for many many hours of…
Wonk 3.0
The Wonk Engine is getting some scheduled maintenance this weekend. Actually, we’re planning a switch to new content management tools, database migration, move to subdomain blogs, and redesign launch. Whoa! We’ll be offline Friday 16th through Sunday 18th. I’m sure…
Limited Nuclear Options
The first impulse of states that acquire nuclear weapons is “simple” deterrence, and the simplest form of deterrence is massive retaliation to existential threats. (India and Pakistan, for example, now embrace declaratory policies of simple deterrence.) The second impulse, made…
Nat’l Security Strategy & Iran
Does the Obama Administration’s National Security Strategy signal a policy shift that in effect drops the condition that Iran suspend its enrichment related activities as a precondition for negotiations? Stephanie Cooke, Uranium Intelligence Weekly’s editor, thinks so: Speaking of Iran,…