North Korea’s announcement of an impending nuclear test refers to a “a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action…” Most people seem to be focusing on the possibility of a device using highly enriched uranium — which is probably right but maybe not the whole …
Is Arms Control Dead (Again)?
by | 2013-01-27 | 16 Comments
David Hoffman tapped a thoughtful piece, “Is Nuclear Arms Control Dead?” that appears on Foreign Policy’s website. Nuclear arms control has been declared dead on many occasions, including when the Soviet Union broke a nearly three-year-long moratorium on atmospheric tests in 1961, when it invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and when the Arms Control and Disarmament …
Agent 15 Items
by | 2013-01-26 | 1 Comment
Well, it’s late at night and my Scotch is empty. So I will make this quick. Here is an image (and .pdf) of the 1998 UK document on Agent 15 that I mentioned in my column for Foreign Policy (Buzz Bomb: Why everyone’s wrong about Assad’s zombie gas). It’s not much to look at: The reference …
Ward Wilson Wednesdays
by | 2013-01-24 | 23 Comments
Yeah, I know it’s Thursday — GET OFF MY CASE. My colleague at the Monterey Institute, Ward Wilson, has a new book out entitled Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons. Ward and I disagree about some things, but I am always up for an argument about the epistemology of nuclear deterrence and manual approaches to elephant …
