Return of the Safeguards Resolution
Some of you know that I am a regular visitor in Vienna, and that I haven’t missed a General Conference since 2004. Most of you also know that I’m not a very diligent blogger anymore. Having said that, I thought…
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Options On and Off the Table
All options are on the table. How many times have we heard this? The administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush directed such declarations to Saddam Hussein. North Korea is no stranger to this formulation. Then there’s…
Brodie’s Weakest Book
This space has periodically sung the praises of Bernard Brodie, but even All Stars occasionally go into slumps. Brodie was off his game in Escalation and the Nuclear Option (1966), in which he argued the case for tactical nuclear weapons.…
Where Is Israel’s Red Line for Iran?
A friend and colleague who prefers to remain anonymous has asked me to post the following. For reasons you can probably guess, I haven’t had time to take a hard look at the numbers. By now everyone already knows about…
Three Messages from GOV/2012/48
Not for the first time, the IAEA Board of Governors on Thursday afternoon passed a resolution on safeguards implementation in Iran which said a few things that its sponsors neglected to point out when they explained the results to the Vienna press corps minutes…
KN-08 Markings
So, baby number 2 is due any day now. I don’t expect to be blogging much over the coming month. One of the great joys of working at the Monterey Institute is the tremendous number of talented students with amazing…
Catch and Release
Two decades of Stimson Center Research Assistants and interns have compiled a chronology of confidence-building measures between India and Pakistan. I asked the most recent keeper of this database, Drew Stommes, to help me discover patterns in these data points.…
The Button
Is that a plastic model of Obama with his hand on the proverbial button? Turns out, it is a little red phone. The product is an “Obama 3 am Phone Call Squeezable Figure.” It reminds my of my favorite Onion…
China Exports SWU
Did you know that China occasionally exports enrichment services? I didn’t. But, sure enough, they do from time to time.
Worth the Wait
Big Brother and the Holding Company I could do without, but I’ve been waiting four decades for someone with Janis Joplin’s raw talent and intensity. Finally, along comes Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes. Patience can sometimes be rewarded. There…
