Not for the first time, the IAEA Board of Governors on Thursday afternoon passed a resolution on safeguards implementation in Iran which said a few things that its sponsors neglected to point out when they explained the results to the Vienna press corps minutes after the vote was taken behind the closed doors of the M Building at the …
KN-08 Markings
by | 2012-09-11 | 16 Comments
So, baby number 2 is due any day now. I don’t expect to be blogging much over the coming month. One of the great joys of working at the Monterey Institute is the tremendous number of talented students with amazing language skills. I have an article, written with one of our students named Hanah Rhee, …
Catch and Release
by | 2012-09-09 | 2 Comments
Two decades of Stimson Center Research Assistants and interns have compiled a chronology of confidence-building measures between India and Pakistan. I asked the most recent keeper of this database, Drew Stommes, to help me discover patterns in these data points. In a nutshell, here is what we found: 1. Every year, there are usually multiple …
The Button
by | 2012-09-05 | 7 Comments
Is that a plastic model of Obama with his hand on the proverbial button? Turns out, it is a little red phone. The product is an “Obama 3 am Phone Call Squeezable Figure.” It reminds my of my favorite Onion headline in recent years: Obama Makes It Through Another Day Of Resisting Urge To Launch All …
