Here is the US Department of State’s translation of the Russian resolution of ratification for the New START treaty. U.S. Department of State Office of Language Services Translating Division LS No. 01-2011-0191 Russian/English PH+JS/VL+PH Translation Draft No. 382931-5 Second reading FEDERAL…
I am sure you have, by now, noticed that Kyodo News has published a story titled, “China military eyes preemptive nuclear attack in event of crisis,” which was picked up by the Associated Press and AFP. The article claims that…
I have acquired two IAEA documents relating to the establishment of an IAEA fuel bank, which I am making available to the community as a public service.\ Have at ’em. Assurance of Supply, Establishment of an IAEA Low Enriched Uranium…
Anthony Trollope lived and wrote half a century before plutonium was discovered, and maybe that’s why during the holidays I was deeply immersed in three of his novels. Shortly before New Year’s and about 400 pages into The Eustace Diamonds,…
During the Reagan administration, the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty was in Senate limbo, mired in arguments over Soviet cheating. The TTBT limited underground tests to yields no greater than 150 kilotons, but the U.S. intelligence community did not have…
One of the great things about the Wikileaks cables is that they contain a bunch of stuff that I should have known, but didn’t. For example, Operation Groundhog. One of the Wikileaks cables — a February 2010 scene-setter for a…
What fan of the hapless Chicago Cubs doesn’t look at a sunny day and think of Ernie Banks? His “Let’s play two!” expressed optimism in the face of fatigue, off-field worries and the inevitability that a doubleheader meant the luckless…
An idiosyncratic survey of the arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation universe in no particular order. The first in a possibly regular installment. FACEBOOK | Mark Hibbs says “there is no Chinese reprocessing ‘breakthrough’ as announced by Chinese official media. This…
Go figure: The very first conversation between Washington and Moscow on the relationship between strategic offense and missile defense took place at Glassboro, New Jersey. Soviet Premier Alexey Kosygin was visiting the United States in June 1967, and President Lyndon…
In Mayan, Akumal is “place of the turtles” — at least that is what Wikipedia tells me. We’re here with the Tomero-Shaws, enjoying the waves, sunshine and chili peppers. “Place of the turtles” is appropriate because, as of late, I’ve…
