NATO Nukes
The first “revelation” from the Wikileaks cache is something we already knew — that there are US nuclear weapons stored in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Turkey — at least, as of November 2009.
2010
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Wikileaks and “CableGate”
I know a lot of you with .gov and .mil addresses have been warned to stay far, far away from the Wikileaks material. I am going to spend a lot of time over the next few weeks going through the…
Korea: Instability Within Stability
As Michael has recently reminded us, the possession of nuclear weapons by two adversaries may lessen the chances of all-out war, but it does not prevent — and may even encourage — more limited forms of conflict. Western strategists have…
Transcendental Meditation & the NPT
Lost amidst President Obama’s announcement that the US would support permanent membership on the UN Security Council for India, was this little nugget in the India-US Joint Statement calling for a nuclear dialogue among nuclear weapons states: They affirmed the…
IAEA Reports on Iran, Syria
Here are the IAEA Director-General Reports on Iran (GOV/2010/62) and Syria (GOV/2010/63).
The Bomb and the Common Cold
Thank you, Dear Readers, for responding so well to the Best Quips Competition. Our panel of judges will be sorely tested. It’s good to know that, in these hard times, some of you insist on keeping a sense of humor.…
North Korea’s Mixed Messages
To place a new nuclear facility at Yongbyon is to prepare it for exhibition. Nothing else makes that point as well as the easily overlooked third new building mentioned in Sig Hecker’s latest trip report, after the light-water reactor (LWR)…
NORK Enrichment Facility
Well, well, well. It isn’t just a light water reactor that North Korea is constructing on the decaying Yongbyon site. The North Koreans also showed Sig Hecker a 2,000 centrifuge enrichment facility in what was the empty Fuel Fabrication Plant…
Greetings from Brazil
My iPhone didn’t really handle handle the tropical sun very well, but you get the idea — it’s a wonk’s life. I am here for a meeting co-hosted by the Stanley Foundation and the Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais, entitled…
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…
