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 …
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.
