And the nominees are … The following individuals have been nominated to the Commission by the House Armed Services Committee: • William Perry, Commission Chairman, former Secretary of Defense; • John Foster, Director Emeritus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; •…
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past month or so on planes to disarmament conferences and planes to non-proliferation conferences, and on one of those journeys (to Geneva, in fact!) I (re)read something that made a very deep…
Want to know one reason that I hate the US-India nuclear deal? The House Committee on Foreign Affairs asked 40 questions about the US-India Nuclear Deal, to which the State Department provided unclassified answers that it refuses to release to…
A potentially interesting development in the whole Iran thing… The next issue of Jane’s International Defence Review (available from here for subscribers) contains an article by Mark Harrington in which he says: Documents shown exclusively to Jane’s indicate that Iran…
I’ve read Chinese Military Power and I don’t agree that it says China increased the size of its nuclear force by 1/3. When I do the math, I get basically 110-160 warheads — about the same size as last year…
Readers, we have failed you. From 4 February to 7 March one of the Wonk’s favourite events in the entire nuclear calendar took place and we didn’t even comment on it… yes, that’s right, Miss Atom 2008. We can but…
How’d you like to make 10 Large writing about nonproliferation? Well, let me introduce you to the Doreen and Jim McElvany 2008 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest: The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and The Nonproliferation Review are pleased to…
I was on a panel today at a CNS lunch to discuss Hugh Gusterson’s article in The Nonproliferation Review, entitled Paranoid Potbellied Stalinist Gets Nuclear Weapons: How the U.S. Print Media Cover North Korea. As you might imagine, Hugh is…
I’m currently doing some reading on nuclear power in the Middle East. As is my (and many Wonk readers) wont I like trying to find the places I read about on Google Earth. Finding Inshas, Egypt’s nuclear research centre, has…
The headline from the press release of a new BBC World Service poll reads Declining Support for Tough Measures against Iran’s Nuclear Program: Global Poll. This poll is flawed and should be interpreted with caution. First, some background. The poll…
