Sorry about the light posting last week, but I had a bit of an adventure. Let me tell you about it. One of my favorite articles of all time was published in 1993 in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Called “Sleuthing From Home,” Vipin Gupta and Phillip McNab detailed their effort at VERTIC to use …
The Next Civ-Nuke Deal?
by | 2012-07-28 | 9 Comments
If you liked the 2005 U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement, you’ll love providing U.S. technology or hardware to India for ballistic missile defenses. The deal between President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, affirmed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Indian Parliament in 2008, was characterized as a boon for U.S.-India relations and …
Taiwan and the ‘Gold Standard’
by | 2012-07-23 | 27 Comments
A few people in Washington are pumping up the forthcoming renewal of the U.S. bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement with Taiwan as an impending shot in the arm for the no-enrichment/no-reprocessing “gold standard” they want to see implemented by the U.S. in all future 123 agreements following the conclusion of the U.S.-UAE agreement in 2009. Nowhere in the world does the U.S. …
Falling Apart
by | 2012-07-21 | 13 Comments
Mike Moore reminded me a while back of this verse from William Butler Yeats’ classic poem, “The Second Coming“: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are …
