Five years ago (5/6/10), during the 2010 NPT Review Conference, you can find my blog post on “Egypt, the Spoiler?” After the 2015 RevCon, we can dispense with the question mark. What happened in New York was symptomatic of a broader malaise affecting arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament: acts of personal and national projection without …
Prelims on the Subcontinent
by | 2015-06-08 | 51 Comments
[Note: This post has been corrected.] Very bad news often follows when adversaries give up on improved relations. We’re at this juncture now on the Subcontinent. High-ranking Indian and Pakistani officials are lobbing over-heated public recriminations about abetting terrorism in each other’s sensitive spaces. Pakistan has elevated the Kashmir issue – never a good sign …
Notes from the REVCON III
by | 2015-06-08 | 7 Comments
Gaukhar is back with the third and final installment of her posts from the 2015 NPT REVCON. If you are interested, we’ve also posted two podcasts in the NPT REVCON Follies, one with Gaukhar and another with Andrea Berger. The RevCon of Our Discontent: The Post Mortem Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova Have you forgotten all about the …
Open Source Pub Quiz
by | 2015-06-07 | 2 Comments
I just got back from London, where Nick Gillard and I tried to stump the very smart participants of RUSI‘s UK PONI conference with a pub quiz. Despite a few technical glitches and a few fire alarms, it came down to the sudden death tie-breaker question. Many thanks to Andrea Berger and the whole RUSI …
