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Greetings from Las Vegas, where I am attending a meeting of the CSCAP WMD Study Group. Man, this city is soul-destroying. John Warden observed that you lose all sense of time and the value of money. He’s right. The discussions…
Ken Adelman loves Shakespeare. The Reagan administration thought that the right stage for him would be the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, after its first appointee as Director, Eugene Rostow, became a bit too obstreperous. Rostow was a heavy hitter.…
I just don’t know what to say. The Onion is sheer genius.
The next couple of weeks are all extended deterrence for me — I am teaching a course on the subject in Monterey, focusing on the decision to retire the TLAM-N as a case study, and making some remarks at another…
In a November 2009 leaked cable, US Embassy Tripoli quoted Saif Ghaddafi “inquiring about the status of the centrifuges Libya gave up,” with Ghaddafi complaining that “the fact that the centrifuges were sent to the United States and are still…
There is no better place than Wagah to look for evidence of how badly India-Pakistan relations have eroded. Most people visit Wagah to sit in stands where they can watch an elaborately synchronized martial exhibition where extremely tall Indian and…
This image of a North Korean Scud (or Nodong) missile has appeared here before — in black-and-white. Wonk-reader Tal Inbar sent it along to Geoff Forden, who posted it, noting that it appeared to have been taken in the final…
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…
