Why is Pakistan building so many nuclear weapons and blocking the start of fissile material cutoff negotiations? There are many reasons. One is that Pakistani military officers who establish nuclear requirements read what Indians have to say. They have read Kautilya, the Indian version of Machiavelli, who wrote Arthasastra around 300 BCE. Great shoebox quotes: …
Lowy Interviews John Duncan
by | 2011-05-10 | 6 Comments
Fergus Hanson at the Lowy Interpreter interviewed John Duncan, UK Permanent Represtantive to the Conference on Disarmament and charter member of the Twitterati, about the impact of new media on diplomacy. One of the questions was “whether blogs can really play a useful role in the hands of government officials who are constrained by what …
W78 Pit Corrosion
by | 2011-05-09 | 8 Comments
I believe NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Don Cook has provided the first open-source confirmation of rumors that the W78 warhead has a pit corrosion problem.
Greetings from Bruxelles!
by | 2011-05-08 | No Comments
I am here, in the land of Tintin, for a Carnegie Endowment workshop on the future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. Obviously the big question is the status of the ongoing effort to create a set of criteria to govern transfers of enrichment and reprocessing technologies. Current NSG guidelines, as Mark Hibbs has observed, merely …
