For those seeking relief from the news coming out of Syria, Iraq, and Libya, I highly recommend watching The Wind and the Lion, a 1975 flick by John Milius. Sean Connery, at the peak of his powers, plays Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli, an untamed tribal of the Rif, who spirits away a miscast Candice Bergen …
Interview with CTBTO’s Zerbo
by | 2014-09-22 | No Comments
Last week, Dr. Lassina Zerbo, the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBO), paid a visit to us at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Dr. Jeffrey Lewis took advantage of Dr. Zerbo’s visit to stop by the Digital Learning Commons and record a special podcast. Drs. Lewis and Zerbo discuss the CTBTO’s …
Full Frontal? Verifying a Nuclear Deal with Iran
by | 2014-09-17 | 2 Comments
Aaron took a long weekend in Istanbul, but Jeffrey and Karl were hard at work! Jeffrey talks to Christopher Bidwell, a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists and co-author of a new report, Verifying a Nuclear Agreement with Iran. The report concludes that any “agreement should require Iran to provide, prior to the …
Ships of the Desert
by | 2014-09-16 | 2 Comments
I have long wanted Allen Thomson to take up blogging. Allen is one of those old guys — you know, the kind who have forgotten more than you’ll ever know, but aren’t well known from the DC rubber chicken circuit or hanging out in various cable TV green rooms. If you’re smart, you run stuff …
