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.
Crazy Korea Story
by | 2013-03-14 | 55 Comments
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 …
Company for Public Transit
by | 2013-03-14 | 2 Comments
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 …
CNS/LLNL Safeguards Course
by | 2013-03-13 | 2 Comments
So, my employer — the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) — runs a nifty little safeguards course with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). I’ve heard really good things about it, so I can heartily recommend it. Also, it’s here in Monterey which is better known as Paradise. (The photograph above was taken by …
