Finally, the long awaited return! In the Middle East, the arms control community has been fixated on only chemical and nuclear arms proliferation, and reasonably so, concerning the Asad regime’s stockpile of chemical weapons and nuclear talks with the Rouhani regime in Iran. Therefore, the ISIL invasion of Iraq has not been analyzed heavily from …
Fasten Seat Belts, Please
by | 2014-06-16 | 12 Comments
Events on the subcontinent are moving quickly, with uncertain outcomes. In short order, Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a resounding mandate. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attended his oath-taking, a savvy symbolic gesture of potential import. One faction of the Pakistani Taliban carried out a brazen attack on Karachi’s international airport, after which Pakistan’s armed forces …
Nuclear Weapons Transparency
by | 2014-06-10 | 11 Comments
Greetings from Wilton Park. I am sitting here next to the Big Swede himself, very occasional contributor Andreas Persbo. He says tjenare. Did you know the UK nearly let the Soviets see inside a Blue Danube nuclear warhead in 1961? Talk about transparency! The context was test ban negotiations between the United States, United KIngdom and Soviet …
The T-Word & Iran Negotiations
by | 2014-06-09 | 4 Comments
Transparency is an elusive commodity in international nuclear affairs. Routinely cited as a universal virtue and not without a certain sanctimoniousness, this aspiration is sacrificed time and time again on the altar of political expediency. Transparency doesn’t factor into the IAEA’s routine work in Iran, which is mostly about monitoring and verifying the accounting of declared …
