Yesterday morning I attended a breakfast featuring General Chilton, STRATCOM commander. The one-time astronaut offered this colorful illustration for why definitional issues would make it impossible, in his judgment, to negotiate a workable treaty banning space weapons: Let’s say you…
A diligent reader spotted an article in Haaretz reporting that, in private, Sarkozy has been very critical of Obama’s Iran policy, calling it (or perhaps him) “utterly immature”. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is very critical of U.S. presidential candidate Barack…
I apologize deeply for posting without a picture, but it may not arrive for some weeks to come, and this article would then be too old. I’m Andreas Persbo, and I’ve been asked to write a couple of posts once…
The amazing Laura Holgate (with Robert Schultz) and the great Pavel Podvig are crossing swords over at the web edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The issue: Megatons to Megawatts. Say Holgate/Schultz: As Pavel Podvig points out in…
Greetings from Korea. According to my guide book “North Korea and nukes” is not a socially acceptable topic for conversation here in Seoul. I hope that advice doesn’t apply to participants in a conference on security on the Korean Peninsula…
Thanks for all of your comments on the previous post. Yet, I am surprised that no one mentioned the one ongoing attempt to practically implement the multilateral nuclear approaches concept – Russia’s International Uranium Enrichment Center at Angarsk. We all…
Privet, dear Readers of Wonk, Greetings from Monterey! By means of an introduction, I’ll say that I’ve been a loyal ACW reader for a long time (we probably have that in common). And as Jeffrey has already mentioned, I’m lucky…
Yes, the place with the beer. Looks like I will be blogging on lightly over the next week or so. So as to not attempt blogging under the influence of the local brew, I have lined up a couple of…
I am off tomorrow for a conference in South Korea organized by the Korean National Defence University. I hope to keep posting while I’m there. In the meantime here is some Friday afternoon reading for you. On Monday I commented…
I meant to add that Richard Clarke’s most recent book, Your Government Failed You has a fantastic account about tracking Russian nuclear weapons deployments. The story, which involves the great Dennis Gormley, centers on Soviet units called “Mobile Technical Rocket…
