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 …

Avatar photoCNS/LLNL Safeguards Course

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 …

Avatar photoGuest Post: Droning On

A friend and colleague who for some reason wishes to remain nameless offers some thoughts on the uses and abuses of unmanned aerial vehicles. -Jeffrey If we’ve learned anything from Sen. Rand Paul’s Senate-floor soliloquy, it’s that equal parts bluster and bladder are the makings of modern cultural heroism. Actually, we’ve learned that the Obama …