Avatar photoFYRP: Like Watching Grain Dry

It’s BBBBBAAAAACCCCCCKKKKK! After a test-and-paper filled odyssey, FYRP has returned! 38 North | Several authors have created an image of life at North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear facility. All Things Nuclear | The House Armed Services Committee marked up the Defense authorization bill several days ago.  It contains 14 Ground-Based Interceptors, and a substantial East Coast …

Avatar photoMore EMP Nonsense

Sorry about not blogging for the past few weeks.  I haven’t submitted a Foreign Policy column, either.  As some of you may know, things have been pretty tough on both personal and professional fronts for a while now.  Am modestly optimistic that things will start sucking less over the next few weeks. Anyway,  this little …

Avatar photoDobrynin

Anatoly Dobrynin was the Soviet Union’s Ambassador to the United States for a mere twenty-four years. He arrived in Washington the year of the Cuban missile crisis and left after Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan managed to steer US-Soviet relations away from nuclear danger. Before this major course correction could occur, Washington and Moscow passed …

Avatar photoSafeguards in the Spotlight

When the IAEA’s 35 governors arrived at the VIC last Monday for their quarterly June meeting, the stack of documents they picked up outside Boardroom C included the 2012 version of the Safeguards Implementation Report (SIR). The distribution to the board of the annual SIR happens every mid-year. This report–like every other document distributed by …