Arms Control Wonk

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 …

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.

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 …

The General Accounting Office has a released a report, Nuclear Weapons: DOD and NNSA Need to Better Manage Scope of Future Refurbishments and Risks to Maintaining U.S. Commitments to NATO,  on the B61 Lifetime Extension Program.  Among the many, many amazing details is a very easy-to-read schedule of planned LEPs (see above). But the report …