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 …
More Mongolia Spent Fuel Storage
by | 2011-05-12 | 7 Comments
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 …
Pakistan’s Nuclear Requirements
by | 2011-05-10 | 47 Comments
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 …
