Years · 2011

September 2011

15 posts

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Public Service Announcements

I really hate putting public service announcements on the blog, in part because there are so many worthwhile causes.  Still, I make an exception every now and again. Friday, September 30 is the deadline for two really important opportunities. First,…

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Plain Speaking

Admiral Mike Mullen, the outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke plainly about Pakistan’s military and intelligence services during his last appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee on September 22nd. Here is what he said: The fact…

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DPRK and Non-Compliance at GC/55

This morning at the 2011 IAEA General Conference in Vienna, the IAEA’s member states passed the resolution GC(55)/L.5, “Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement between the Agency and the DPRK,”  by consensus. It was sponsored by 44 states. Yeoman’s work was done…

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Second Wind

The Obama administration’s arms control team has to be tired. It took great effort to secure two time-sensitive and essential agenda items – negotiating a new strategic arms reduction treaty to replace one that was due to expire in December…

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Where Are The Rest of Khan’s Docs?

“urumqi – best lamb kebabs ever! And that’s ¥1.50 (or $0.20) per stick!” Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, August 2005  Photo credit and caption: Flickr User Cåsver Now that Fox News has released several of the documents that AQ Khan gave to…

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AQ Khan Documents

Micah Morrison at Fox News, with the cooperation of Simon Henderson, has published the set of documents that AQ Khan provided to Henderson including (1) his so-called “confession” (which is hardly contrite and probably better described as a “statement“), (2)…

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Securing Valuable Global Services

September 24th marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty’s celebratory signing ceremony at the United Nations. That’s fifteen years in which the treaty has remained in limbo, due to the worst entry-into-force provision ever negotiated. A much…

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Reporting to the Board of Governors

It’s mid-September, so it must be Vienna, and that means it’s time for another spin on the Prater with the IAEA Board of Governors followed by the annual IAEA General Conference. After that there’s one more board meeting on Sept. 26,…

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Revisiting Bush’s Decision on Al Kibar

Something about the whole Syria nuclear reactor story has never seemed quite right to me. When anonymous US officials began to hint that the facility struck by Israel was in some way nuclear, I wondered how solid that intelligence was.…