Irene Jay Liu has a really interesting article in the South China Morning Post on Hong Kong’s role as a transshipment point (subscription only, I am afraid). The whole article is worth reading, but I really got a kick out of this email exchange between an Iranian going by “Ali” and a Taiwanese businessman, Chen …
Hello world!
by | 2011-03-03 | 19 Comments
Hello out there! Since Geoffrey Forden stopped blogging, ArmsControlWonk has been a little bit light in the ‘rocket science’ department – so Jeffrey asked me to fill that gap (frequent readers of this blog’s comment section may already have stumbled over my name here and there). Well, i’ll do what i can to round ACW …
The Adjacent Possible
by | 2011-03-01 | 12 Comments
Pardon the oversimplification, but Hawks and Doves, for all their polarity, are driven by the same basic motivation — anxiety. Both are pessimists at heart, worried that mankind’s worst instincts will be realized. Hawks worry about being disadvantaged by very bad actors and by the Bomb’s use. Doves worry about any use of the Bomb, …
Bushehr Cooling Pump
by | 2011-02-28 | 13 Comments
After the IAEA DG report on Iran noted that the Iranians were unloading the fuel from Bushehr, Bill Broad and David Sanger provided several column inches of speculation about whether STUXNET had struck again. Now, Bill Broad reports that ROSATOM has offered a more “prosaic” explanation — a failed cooling pump that is about my …
