Bad Ideas
In an effort to compare the US-India nuclear deal to other historically-bad ideas, I give you an account of a 1975 article from Fortune magazine that I found in Steve Weissman and Herbert Krosney’s 1981 book The Islamic Bomb. According…
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Pakistani Pu Reactor and Reprocessing
NRDC’s Tom Cochran has released a pretty compelling rebuttal of David Albright’s estimate of the capacity of Pakistan’s new plutonium production reactor. Albright, writing with Paul Brannan, estimated the capacity of the new reactor in excess of 1000 MW; NSC…
Kang on North Korean Nuclear Test
Dave Kang—Associate Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth and Managing the Atom Research Associate—sends along his thoughts on North Korea’s announcement of an impending North Korean nuclear test: Will North Korea actually test? What do they hope to get…
North Korean Nuclear Test?
By now, you’ve probably heard that the DPRK has announced its intention to conduct a nuclear test. (The BBC has a translation of the Korean statement; the original is here.) The money line is: The DPRK Foreign Ministry is authorized…
Norks Threaten Nuke Test
Nice to wake up to. Reuters, via CNN, has part of of the North Korean FM statement. Here’s the scary part: Firstly, the field of scientific research of the DPRK will in the future conduct a nuclear test under the…
Ice-T and DPRK
Decibel Magazine has an interview with Ice-T where he discusses, among other topics, some current foreign policy issues. It’s pretty sweet. Here’s what he had to say about the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the status of North Korea’s…
What Price, Peace?
The New York University Law School Magazine contains “a rare in-depth profile of Mohamed ElBaradei (LL.M. ’71, J.S.D. ’74, LL.D. ’04), who runs the International Atomic Energy Agency.” The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner believes that, to forestall violence, the…
jumpSTART
Hey folks, sorry for the long absence. Xiamen is fantastic … much more exciting than the blue glow of my laptop. What little time I’ve spent online has been sunk on my book, a forthcoming article and, you know, managing…
The Boyz From Princeton
Alex Glaser and Scott Kemp (above) gave a talk on Gas Centrifuges and the future of nonproliferation at Tsinghua University, with Li Bin as host. The talk was cool, but the diagram of the centrifuge is HOT, supplanting the very…
NPR on Iran Intel
NPR had a good segment [Via Laura Rozen ] earlier today about, among other things, the Pentagon’s new Iran desk. It notes that several of its staffers worked for OSD’s Office of Special Plans. [FYI, one of those staffers, Abram…