If you don’t own Michael Light’s 100 Suns, you should. I keep seeing references to this story, posted on an IRGC website, entitled The Day After the First Iranian Nuclear Test: A Normal Day. It is a very strange story — a satirical look at the day after an Iranian nuclear test — that is definitely …
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
by | 2011-06-14 | 1 Comment
On the 100th year anniversary of his birth, recognition is due for Hubert Humphrey’s many accomplishments, one of which was to spur the creation of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Greetings from Seoul
by | 2011-06-13 | 4 Comments
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 …
