A week or so ago, the Washington Post printed a story by Joby Warrick and Colum Lynch about Olli Heinonen’s briefing to the IAEA Board of Governors on weaponization work in Iran. Warrick and Lynch, apparently, had the notes of…
Rob Edwards in New Scientist writes about a material called FOGBANK, which is used in US nuclear weapons such as the W76. (Ian Sample in the Guardian also picked it up.) Edwards’s article contains some speculation on the use of…
As part of the Wonk’s public service role, let me bring to your attention an outstanding resource letter, “Physics and Society: Nuclear Arms Control”, that was published by Alex Glaser and Zia Mian in the January edition of the American…
DNI has posted 721 Reports from 2005 and 2006. January 1 – December 31, 2006: Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions January 1 – December 31, 2005:…
Jeffrey (quite rightly) had words with me in Oslo about my recent lack of postings and so let me start this week with a public promise to improve my blogging statistics. Incidentally, speaking of Oslo, the Minister’s Summary (which I…
Well off to Singapore (after a short romp in Tokyo) for a workshop hosted by the Brookings Institution and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, entitled A New Nuclear World Order: Asian Perspectives. I can’t believe someone pays…
I started Sunday delivery of the Washington Post today. I was sitting here with my coffee and bagel, Meet the Press babbling on the TV, when I came across an odd little story, buried at the bottom of page A16,…
We had dinner last night at Akershus Castle in Norway. Our host, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, made a big announcement — Norway will provide $5 million for the IAEA Fuel Bank. The pledge is a significant development —…
Geoff Forden sends along four questions that Congress should ask about the recent anti-satellite mission to destroy USA 193: Spy Satellite Shoot-down: Four Questions for Congressional Oversight Geoffrey Forden Last week’s shoot-down of USA-193 appears to have eliminated whatever small…
I heard two new ideas today that I found interesting, not least because they were, well, new. Anyway, in both cases, the speakers suggested adopting successful ideas from other areas — one on efforts to combat climate the change; the…
