I am in Seoul to attend the Asan Plenum, which the Asan Institute is hosting in advance of the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. I am on four panels — no, that is not a typo. Buy me a drink and I will explain how that happens. I’ve already given a talk on Myanmar, with …
A Bridge Too Far? Syria & GOV/40
by | 2011-06-11 | 48 Comments
I left the M Building at the Vienna International Centre at the end of the day on Thursday just after 6 p.m., as the cleaning brigade arrived to pick up the debris of official statements and coffee cups scattered about the place about an hour after the IAEA’s June Board of Governors meeting wrapped up. The arrival of the Putzkolonne upon …
The Franck Report
by | 2011-06-07 | 30 Comments
A group of distinguished Manhattan Project scientists based at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory were among the first to consider whether or how to use atomic bombs in World War II. The Met Lab’s primary challenge was to establish proof of concept for a nuclear chain reaction and plutonium production. Then the action moved …
Full Text of GOV/2011/40
by | 2011-06-07 | 9 Comments
As you probably know, the IAEA Board of Governors is meeting June 6-10 in Vienna, with a major fight looming over Syria. The US and 12 other countries will table a resolution at the BOG to find Syria in breach of its safeguards obligations and to report Syria to the United Nations Security Council. Arms …
