As Thanksgiving approaches, for Americans our thoughts naturally turn to turkey. But since this is an arms control blog, our thoughts turn to Turkey — the country. The United States is pressing Turkey on the issue of missile defense at…
This post is geared to the silent majority of ACW readers who refrain from commenting on what they read on this site. So let’s try something new: The first annual ACW Best Quips about the Bomb Contest. (Unless this experiment…
Although many of you already know this, I have moved over to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, where I will direct the East Asia Nonproliferation Program. I am tremendously excited by the new challenge. Bill Potter has steadily built CNS…
After further review, the new joint UK-France nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship effort is little less effing baffling than before. We now have the full text of the Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the…
As anyone who follows foreign policy and national security issues knows, officials from past presidential administrations have a way of somehow remaining relevant, regardless of their area of expertise — or, in some cases, their total lack of expertise. No…
Colum Lynch is reporting and blogging that China has droppped its opposition to releasing the Report to the Security Council from the Panel of Experts established Pursuant to Resolution 1874 (2009): The U.N. Security Council was preparing Tuesday to release…
This only looks like a missile contrail; but it is really a jet. A jet contrail from December 31, via Contrail Science. There are multiple hypotheses for the contrail seen near Los Angeles. But the most likely one is pretty…
It’s never a good sign when the United States votes in lonely isolation at the United Nations. This can only mean one of three things: that the rest of the world is spineless, or that the White House is obtuse…
Forget all the stories explaining how the election imperils the New START treaty. The elections matter, but not quite in the way you think. The real threat to the New START treaty is now from the nuclear-weapons complex — comprising …
Yesterday, I noted that the centerpiece of the UK-France agreement to cooperate on nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship was to be a new radiography facility at Valduc, called EPURE. Today, a few more details are available. It appears that the facility…
