The Wonk—or more accurately Jeffrey—has been writing for a while about the organizational problems faced by the US Air Force in its handling of nuclear weapons (see this, this and this). In summary, Jeffery’s oft-repeated argument is this: Heads are…
Following up on James’s post about the proposed NSG exemption for India, the Arms Control Association has the full text of the document. If you haven’t been reading Siddharth Varadarajan’s commentary at Reality, One Bite At A Time and in…
The US has apparently finished drafting the NSG exemption for nuclear trade with India (apologies, this is a few days old—I’ve been behind on my blogging). At a meeting in London last month US Ambassador to the IAEA Greg Schulte…
People often ask me why, as a philosophy major, I ended up in this particular field. I was an epistemologist — someone who studied knowledge and justified belief. The art of intelligence is, in that way, a massive exercise in…
You may recall Asher Karni — the Israeli citizen living in South Africa who pled guilty to assisting the Pakistani nuclear program. One of his alleged accomplices went on trial recently, according to Caryn Dolley in the Cape Times: AN…
I’ve had UK nuclear issues on my mind a lot recently—all sparked off by my Barcelona talk, I guess. Preparing for that talk, I spent a lot of time reading the transcript of the House of Commons Defence Committee’s enquiry…
Arms Control Today has a blog to allow readers to comment on recent articles in the magazine. There is some new content as well, such as a list of ACA recommendations for Nuclear Vacation.
Speaking of Foreign Secretaries… I’ve known for a while that Britain’s current incumbent, David Miliband, personally hosted a small round table on disarmament last month. Most of what I have heard has been on an off-the-record basis so I haven’t…
Apparently, Princess Sparklepony did not and will not sign the follow-on white paper to Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RRW. At least that is what Elaine Grossman reports U.S.…
So this weekend, Iran rebuffed the P5+1 “freeze-for-freeze” proposal for having meta negotiations (negotiations about negotiations) over the nuclear issue. No surprises there. But what next for the P5+1? I offer some ideas in my latest piece for The Guardian.…
