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In 2007, Alexei Arbatov, Vladimir Dvorkin and Sergey Oznobishchev helped the Stimson Center develop a draft Code of Conduct for responsible space-faring nations, but they were unsatisfied with the result. As Sergey writes in a fine new monograph, Outer Space:…
After a few years of activity, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s probe of Syria’s nuclear activities is sputtering to a halt. To their credit, even after the being denied access to sites apparently linked to the concealed reactor destroyed by…
A couple of days ago, Wikileaks released several hundred more diplomatic cables from around the world. I was getting ready to dig through them for any interesting nuclear-related information, when the UK Daily Telegraph conveniently did it for us. Their…
Last month Secretary Gates made the comment that North Korea was within five years of being able to hit the United States with an ICBM. Over at Joel Wit’s wonderful 38 North Blog, David Wright and myself have complementary pieces…
I am doing a lot of work on Myanmar these days. One of the most interesting phenomenon is how rumors tend to inspire people with fertile imaginations. There are two cables from the US Embassy in Rangoon (Yangon) that are…
What if I could lower your electricity bill by about 45 cents a month in exchange for helping Syria and one or two other countries acquire a nuclear weapons capability? How about it? What, not so excited about that? Ok,…
An early shoebox posting highlighted Kenneth Waltz’s classic Adelphi Paper, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons — More May be Better (1981). Another Adelphi Paper on the Bomb that’s worth reading, in my view, is Neil Joeck’s Maintaining Nuclear Stability in…
