My Own Sleuthing From Home
Sorry about the light posting last week, but I had a bit of an adventure. Let me tell you about it. One of my favorite articles of all time was published in 1993 in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Called…
July 2012
13 posts
The Next Civ-Nuke Deal?
If you liked the 2005 U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement, you’ll love providing U.S. technology or hardware to India for ballistic missile defenses. The deal between President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, affirmed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group…
Taiwan and the ‘Gold Standard’
A few people in Washington are pumping up the forthcoming renewal of the U.S. bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement with Taiwan as an impending shot in the arm for the no-enrichment/no-reprocessing “gold standard” they want to see implemented by the U.S. in all future 123 agreements…
Falling Apart
Mike Moore reminded me a while back of this verse from William Butler Yeats’ classic poem, “The Second Coming“: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere…
Do We Need ICBMs?
The Commander of the US Strategic Command, C. Robert “Bob” Kehler recently offered support for the Triad — the trinity of bombers, land-based missiless and ballistic missile submarines — that some people have chose to characterize as tepid. Now, admittedly…
DPRK Panel of Experts
I have a new post up over at 38 North looking at the role of the Panel of Experts supporting the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) — the resolution establishing sanctions on the DPRK. I had…
Team B
Thankfully, I have never laid eyes on plans to fight a nuclear war. The biggest advantages to not knowing these plans are that my sleep habits and powers of analysis have not been further impaired. Knowledge is usually a good…
When the Navy Declassifies …
I always figured the number of Tomahawk cruise missiles in the Navy inventory was a classified number. Turns out, the Navy has been publishing the number since at least 1997. The Navy also, between 1997-2000, published the number of TLAM/N…
Iran Mil Power Report
In April 2012, the Defense Department released another edition of the (purportedly) annual Report to Congress on the Military Power of Iran. As in 2010, I am struck by the arbitrariness of headline that has emerged. This year it is:…
Resuming SLCM Data Exchanges
I was in DC briefly this week to participate in a workshop hosted by the Carnegie Endowment. James Acton asked me to propose a US-Russia confidence-building measure, which offered the welcome opportunity to make a suggestion I’ve been kicking around…