What if I could lower your electricity bill by about 45 cents a month in exchange for helping Syria and one or two other countries acquire a nuclear weapons capability? How about it? What, not so excited about that? Ok, lets just say it increases the chance of the Syrian bomb by 10 percent over …
The Well-Read Wonk
by | 2011-02-02 | 5 Comments
An early shoebox posting highlighted Kenneth Waltz’s classic Adelphi Paper, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons — More May be Better (1981). Another Adelphi Paper on the Bomb that’s worth reading, in my view, is Neil Joeck’s Maintaining Nuclear Stability in South Asia (1997). Neil is a product of the University of California system, but he …
Nuclear Night
by | 2011-01-31 | 3 Comments
Credit: Brad Lindsey Sorry about the dearth of posting lately — last week was one of those periods where I am pretty convinced I should have gone to law school instead of getting a PhD. On an amusing note, the Tri-City Americans — a Western Hockey League team based in Kennewick, WA — held the …
Riyadh Redux
by | 2011-01-30 | 6 Comments
Six months ago I aired here some initial thinking aloud which was ongoing inside the US Executive Branch about whether to go forward with a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement (a so-called 123 agreement) with Saudi Arabia. Since then, there has been some further internal discussion of this issue. In the above post, I wrote that Saudi officials …
