There has been no shortage of remembrances and lessons learned from the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. It’s easy to forget – unless your country codes are 86 and 91 – that this is also the 50th anniversary of the war between China and India. The United States and the Soviet Union managed …
Banning Nuclear-Armed ABMs
by | 2012-10-18 | 19 Comments
I have my semi-weekly column up at Foreign Policy arguing that the impending demise of Nunn-Lugar is of a piece with the loss of monitoring at Votkinsk and obligatory telemetry exchanges with the expiration of the START treaty. The Russians want us out as they modernize. I worry that the bilateral arms control process is …
SLCM Data Exchanges Revisited
by | 2012-10-16 | 8 Comments
Regular readers know that one of my hobby horses is that the US and Russia should revive the sea-launched cruise missile data exchanges that expired with START as a confidence-building measure because the next agreement will probably have to say something about SLCMs. A short version of my proposal appears in a new Carnegie monograph, Beyond …
PSA: CTBT Advanced Science Course
by | 2012-10-15 | 5 Comments
One of the things I am terrible about is promising to post worthwhile public service announcements, then forgetting! Anyway, I don’t want to forget this one. Any chance to listen to Linton Brooks by day, and then hash it out afterward over beers with the big Swede, Andreas Persbo, is not to be missed. If …
