Avatar photoEmerging Powers and Nuclear Politics

Megan Garcia has penned a great little essay on “emerging powers” in nuclear politics in general, and Brazil in particular.  Let me also plug her monograph, Global Swing States and the Non-Proliferation Order. The subject is super important — one of the big ideas lurking in the back of my head concerns how the nonproliferation regime adjusts to …

Avatar photoThe Dunn Theorem

Lew Dunn, the Bronx’s gift to the Nonproliferation Treaty, has a theory about NPT Review Conferences. The Dunn Theorem is that back-to-back successes are a rarity; more likely, every other RevCon is a flop. If Lew is right, the next RevCon may be a rough ride.

Avatar photoCrazy Korea Story

Several of my colleagues have been scratching their heads over a bizarre story that appeared in the Joongang Ilbo (“U.S. nukes to remain in South, To deter a North attack, weapons to stay after joint drills, possibly on sub”) that attributed a number of odd statements about U.S. nuclear weapons to a “high-ranking South Korean government …

Avatar photoCompany for Public Transit

Over the course of a year, you enter e-book territory when you write, on average, 800 words a week for ACW. This site’s capabilities for retrieving material by subject matter are still a work in progress. For this flimsy reason, but mostly as a vanity project, I’ve self-published my posts from 2012, along with a …