Hubert Horatio Humphrey
On the 100th year anniversary of his birth, recognition is due for Hubert Humphrey’s many accomplishments, one of which was to spur the creation of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
June 2011
18 posts
Greetings from Seoul
I am in Seoul to attend the Asan Plenum, which the Asan Institute is hosting in advance of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. I am on four panels — no, that is not a typo. Buy me a drink…
A Bridge Too Far? Syria & GOV/40
I left the M Building at the Vienna International Centre at the end of the day on Thursday just after 6 p.m., as the cleaning brigade arrived to pick up the debris of official statements and coffee cups scattered about the place about an…
The Franck Report
A group of distinguished Manhattan Project scientists based at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory were among the first to consider whether or how to use atomic bombs in World War II. The Met Lab’s primary challenge was to establish…
Full Text of GOV/2011/40
As you probably know, the IAEA Board of Governors is meeting June 6-10 in Vienna, with a major fight looming over Syria. The US and 12 other countries will table a resolution at the BOG to find Syria in breach…
More Saudi/Storm Shadow/MTCR
We have a pretty impressive discussion thread going on the issue of the UK sale of the Storm Shadow LACM to Saudi Arabia. If you read the original post, you should also take a look at the comments. We’ve got…
Who Will Host the Fuel Bank?
The IAEA has begun circulating a document soliciting a host for the IAEA Fuel Bank. Arms Control Wonk.com has the full text of GOV/INF/2011/7 Assurance of Supply: IAEA Low Enriched Uranium Bank, Solicitation for Host State. Kazakhstan is the only…
Seven Days in May
Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb gets all the attention, but there are other great cinematic period pieces about the Bomb. My suggestion for wonkish Netflix lists is Seven Days in…