Another edition of ACW’s best regular column! 24 GOP Senators – rubio.senate.gov | The Berlin speech / unilateral nuclear cuts debate continues. We missed it at the time, but back in June, a couple dozen Republican senators weighed in, saying “It is our view that any further reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal should only be …
Simulating the Executive Council redux
by | 2013-08-01 | 7 Comments
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of serving my second term as the Director-General of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). I played my role in a simulation set up by the CTBTO’s Capacity Development Initiative (CDI). As last year, the gameplay felt realistic, and the outcome vote fell within what one …
What Went Wrong with Arms Control?
by | 2013-07-30 | 15 Comments
In the mid-1980s, many smart people predicted the death of arms control. Thomas Schelling was one of them. Others included Richard Haass, Albert Carnesale, Les Gelb, and Zbigniew Brzezinski. US-Soviet relations were in terrible shape. The White House and the Kremlin were talking past each other. Uber-hawks in the Reagan administration compiled a long list …
DPRK Armistice Parade
by | 2013-07-28 | 37 Comments
Greetings from Hiroshima, Japan — or, as I like to say, within range of a Nodong. As you can see, North Korea appears to have paraded a Hwaseong-13 (KN-08) without the camouflage we saw last time. The Scuds got a makeover, too. This is now consistent with previous parade appearance of Nodongs and Musudans. I …
