Even though the stock price of multilateral arms control is extremely low, there still aren’t many buyers. The heyday of the Conference on Disarmament was in the mid-1990s, when the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Comprehensive Test Ban treaties were finalized. The CD has been moribund ever since, a victim of its unwieldy size and …
Nuclear Weapons Budget, Revisited
by | 2012-06-08 | 10 Comments
Russell Rumbaugh and Nathan Cohn, at the Stimson Center, have a new report out entitled, Resolving Ambiguity: Costing Nuclear Weapons, with a nice companion piece in Arms Control Today.
No BOG Iran Work Plan Endorsement
by | 2012-06-06 | 120 Comments
Iran has been making quarterly statements to the IAEA Board of Governors (BOG) for nine long years. That’s longer than most current IAEA member state permanent mission representatives in Vienna can recall because virtually none of these individuals were here in Vienna back then. But there are a few exceptions. And today one of them showed me that institutional memory matters. Agenda item 7(d) of …
DPRK Threatens ROK Media
by | 2012-06-04 | 28 Comments
KCNA, on behalf of North Korea, is threatening to rain nuclear weapons down upon various media outlets in Seoul. That’s not hyperbole, if I clarify that the nuclear part is merely implied. Good times! Seriously, KCNA has issued a long, threatening statement that gives the lat/long for major South Korean media outlets that are to …
