FYRP: Jumpin’ Jack Flash
As promised, it has arrived! Scott Shane – New York Times | Wait, I seem to remember discussing Syrian use of chemical weapons. In April. (Does FYRP – Fuzzy Red Lines ring any bells?) We really knew about this back…
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Iran and Secondary Uranium Sources
Near the end of what seemed a super-busy and seamless six-month transition from spring to fall without the respite of a summer silly season, a lighter tabloid moment arrived last week. The government of Zimbabwe proclaimed that a revelation in…
The Absence of Ambition
As President Obama looks beyond the water’s edge in search of achievement and for relief from Republican hyper-partisanship, he sees a barren and smoldering landscape, with problems from hell in Syria, Egypt and elsewhere, a Putinized Russia, and a China…
Plutonium Mountain
David Hoffman and Eben Harrell have published an amazing account (“Plutonium Mountain: Inside the 17-year mission to secure a dangerous legacy of Soviet nuclear testing“) of the three operations to secure orphaned plutonium at the Semipalatinsk test site — Operations Groundhog, Matchbox…
Isodarco Conference
I promise a FYRP soon! In the meantime, a public service announcement: Università di Padova – Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” – Università di Trento Carnegie Corporation of New York Centro di Ricerca Politica Internazionale e Risoluzione dei Conflitti (CERPIC – FBK – Trento) Fondazione…
David C. Jones, 1921-2013
I noticed that General David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1978-1982, passed away at the age of 92. Richard Goldstein has written an obituary for Jones in New York Times that emphasizes the failure of Desert…
Jasjit Singh
Air Commodore Jasjit Singh died on August 4th. He was a highly decorated fighter pilot who subsequently served as the Director of Flight Safety and the Director of Air Operations at Indian Air Force Headquarters. After retiring from active duty,…
Anger Management in the Middle East
This is published on the behalf of Nilsu Goren, Aviv Melamud, Ibrahim Said Ibrahim, and Ariane Tabatabai of the Middle East Next Generation of Arms Control Specialists Network. The Middle East has provided an arena for different weapons of mass…
The Future of Arms Control
The control of weapons of mass destruction has been about numbers, treaties and norms. The first two get most of the attention, even though the third is the grand prize. Numbers and treaties are essential tools to build an edifice…
FYRP: If You Will The End
Another edition of ACW’s best regular column! 24 GOP Senators – rubio.senate.gov | The Berlin speech / unilateral nuclear cuts debate continues. We missed it at the time, but back in June, a couple dozen Republican senators weighed in, saying “It…