Avatar photoWorst Chart Ever

A friend sent along an article in Newsweek, Pakistan’s Nuclear Surge, by Andrew Bast that has what I think has to be the worst chart ever. I mean that.

Avatar photoAQ Khan on the Pak Stockpile

AQ Khan has written an oped in which he defends his efforts to produce nuclear weapons as necessary to “save my country from Indian nuclear blackmail.” I was going to suggest SEAL Team 6 make an encore performance in Pakistan, when I noticed that Khan said something else very interesting: there is a limit to …

Avatar photoAdditional Protocol and ENR Transfers

As I noted on Sunday, I was in Brussels to attend a meeting hosted by the Carnegie Endowment on the future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The meeting was held under the Chatham House Rule. (Interesting side note, the Chatham House site now includes an explicit approval of live-tweeting a meeting under the rule.) One …

Avatar photoMore Mongolia Spent Fuel Storage

  The Manichi Daily has published a series of stories about US efforts to site a spent fuel repository in Mongolia. The short version is that sources — probably in Japan — leaked more details about discussions between the Department of Energy and the Mongolians, then the Japanese Government and the US Embassy in Japan …