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Why is Pakistan building so many nuclear weapons and blocking the start of fissile material cutoff negotiations? There are many reasons. One is that Pakistani military officers who establish nuclear requirements read what Indians have to say. They have read…
Fergus Hanson at the Lowy Interpreter interviewed John Duncan, UK Permanent Represtantive to the Conference on Disarmament and charter member of the Twitterati, about the impact of new media on diplomacy. One of the questions was “whether blogs can really…
I believe NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Don Cook has provided the first open-source confirmation of rumors that the W78 warhead has a pit corrosion problem.
I am here, in the land of Tintin, for a Carnegie Endowment workshop on the future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Obviously the big question is the status of the ongoing effort to create a set of criteria to govern…
The General Accounting Office has a released a report, Nuclear Weapons: DOD and NNSA Need to Better Manage Scope of Future Refurbishments and Risks to Maintaining U.S. Commitments to NATO, on the B61 Lifetime Extension Program. Among the many, many…
Abbottabad is a quiet, lovely city. The Stimson Center convened a Track II workshop there for rising Pakistani strategic analysts. The city’s most prominent feature is Kakul, the Pakistani military academy where outstanding recruits begin their studies and service careers.…
“Laßt mich in Ruhe mit euren Gewissensbissen, das ist doch so schöne Physik!” –Enrico Fermi, arguing with his colleagues on the Manhattan Project about the ethical implications of developing the atomic bomb. What? I thought Enrico Fermi was Italian! And…
Reader MP sends along a picture of nine easter eggs — one for each state with nuclear weapons
The most successful and longest serving Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency was the first man to hold this job, William C. Foster. During his tenure, the United States negotiated the Limited Test Ban Treaty and the Nonproliferation…
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on state-to-state nuclear cooperation — especially the connection between Pakistan and North Korea. I recently reread Bamboo and Blood, by James Church (a pseudonym for one of the most distinguished North Korea…
