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In a phone call at one o’clock in the morning on March 17, 2003, the U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA, Kenneth Brill, advised IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei to remove his inspectors from Baghdad immediately. The following day, the IAEA gave orders for personnel to leave Iraq.…
Spurgeon Keeny, one of the founding fathers and practitioners of nuclear arms control, died last week, after a full life, well lived. Spurgeon loved Hieronymus Bosch as much as touch football. His understanding of arms control, nonproliferation, and the fuel…
Sorry about the light posting as of late — the day job has been busier than usual and the new column at Foreign Policy is definitely a lot of work. I’ve started a few posts, but got hung up in…
For four years now, STRATCOM has hosted an annual deterrence symposium that provides opportunities for younger officers and their seniors to hear old hands, U.S. government officials, foreign perspectives, policy influentials, and the occasional heretic. As a networking and learning…
Back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we used telephones with long cords and wrote personal letters. This dinosaur still abstains from Facebook, rarely texts, and doesn’t tweet. The transition from writing on a yellow legal pad to…
What are we to make of these two statements, one by Senator Jon Kyl and the other by Representative Michael Turner? A central tenet of the Obama Administration’s security policy is that, if the U.S. ‘leads by example’ we can…
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…
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…
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…
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…
