Holy cow, the 2011 Compliance Report is out. Here I am, sitting in Idaho Falls with a glass of wine, reflecting on what a lovely nuclear waste dump this state would make, getting ready to hit the sack and then I see that. I don’t see anything earth shattering, but I perused the text very quickly. …
‘We should retain the option to test…’
by | 2011-08-18 | 39 Comments
At the end of my discussion of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty with Linton Brooks, he suggested that I interview someone who’s a “treaty skeptic”, who has doubts about the treaty and is able to explain them well. He referred me to Tom Scheber, who is Vice President of the National Institute for Public Policy. …
Secrets in the Sand
by | 2011-08-17 | 2 Comments
Part I in a multi-part series on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). In 1996, as soon as it was published, I read Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, by Richard Rhodes. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in an example of how the invention of a weapon of extraordinary power …
Afghan Non-End Game
by | 2011-08-16 | 8 Comments
With Washington, its partners, and interested neighbors gearing up diplomatic efforts over Afghanistan, I’d like to remind readers what George Shultz wrote in his memoirs about the previous Afghan “settlement.” The 1988 Geneva accords, reached under the auspices of the United Nations, took six years of tortured negotiations. As Secretary Shultz recounted in Turmoil and …
