Years · 2011

July 2011

17 posts

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Memo from Jon Byong Ho

The Washington Post has just published its latest story by R. Jeffrey Smith based on a document supplied by A.Q. Khan to English journalist and would-be Khan biographer Simon Henderson.  This one is different – it’s not one of Khan’s…

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The Bhangmeter

I was corresponding with a colleague about the Operation Ivy clip I posted the other day. He is is very knowledgeable about nuclear weapons policy, more so than I am actually, and in passing mentioned one of the diagnostic devices…

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Summer Reading for the Well-Read Wonk

I’ve asked Stephen Schwartz, the editor of The Nonproliferation Review, to suggest interesting reads that have appeared in The Nonproliferation Review for aspiring wonks. His nine recommendations follow. I will add a tenth in a subsequent post.

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Fireworks

A Flash animation or video was embedded here. Flash no longer works in web browsers. On the 4th of July, I thought I would share my idea of fireworks.

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Fire on the Hill

On 3 June 2011, my husband and I returned to Albuquerque after my visit to an advanced respiratory clinic in Denver (long story– that’s why I haven’t been writing here at ACW recently). We exited the airport only to be…

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After GOV/40: Tale of Two Narratives

In comments addressed to and posted by Jeffrey on Friday, John Carlson drew attention to my omission of a 2008 IAEA visit to Syria in my Carnegie article on the IAEA board of governors’ resolution GOV/2011/40, concerning IAEA access to…

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Carlson on Syria

John Carlson sent along a comment about Mark’s post,A Bridge Too Far? Syria & GOV/40.  It was too important to bury in the comments, so I thought I would put it here: Syria and safeguards non-compliance – a “new paradigm”?…