Wonder how our friends in Israel feel about that big, gaping hole we blew in the nonproliferation regime for India? Jealous, according to Mark Hibbs: During the last 18 months, Israeli officials have discreetly explored, including in bilateral discussions with…
From the genius who brought you the Bush Administration’s stem cell policy … comes our North Korea policy: The architect of [the Bush Administration’s policy on stem cell research], navigating ethically and politically treacherous terrain, was a litigator named Jay…
Just one thing to add to Jeffrey’s excellent post about Japan’s nuclear weapons potential… According to a 1999 DIA primer on future threats (which can be found here), Germany and Japan “could develop a nuclear warhead within a year should…
First, a little housekeeping, then onto the subject of Japanese nukes. In the comments section of my previous post on the Sankei article, I posted the full text in Japanese. Two readers have offered translations, which I think is a…
Here is the link to the Japanese language Sankei Shimbun story about a Japanese government study on developing nuclear weapons. The story doesn’t have the document, but reproduces the “essence” in bullet points: 一、小型核弾頭試作には最低でも３～５年、２０００億～３０００億円かかる 一、核原料製造のためウラン濃縮工場拡張は非現実的。軽水炉使用済み燃料再処理をしても不可能 一、黒鉛減速炉によるプルトニウム抽出が一番の近道 I gather (from a…
I’ve usually taken it as common wisdom that Japan, if it suddenly wanted to, could build a nuclear bomb in about 6 months. Articles and experts have quoted this figure. However, there are reports quoting the Japanese newspaper Sankei of…
A couple of months ago, Jane blogged about a computer game called DEFCON, which she observed was probably “more fun” than the various nonviolent strategy games making a big deal in our field. Spencer Yip at Siliconera notes we can…
We are on a whole Iran kick here so I felt that I should get in on the fun. First, check out this article, A Win-Win U.S. Strategy for Dealing with Iran in the current issue of Washington Quarterly. The…
Paul is just blogging up a storm, with posts on UN Resolution 1737 (sanctions on Iran) and a bill passed by the Majlis stipulating that the body “must decide within the next 48 hours whether to continue its membership in…
Ron Brynaert and Michael Roston make their best effort at reconstructing the Leverett op-ed, as does Brad Delong.
