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 …
The Smyth Report
by | 2011-01-25 | 40 Comments
Just three days after the bombing of Nagaski, on August 12, 1945, General Leslie Groves released an “administrative history of the Atomic Bomb project and the basic scientific knowledge on which the several developments were based.” It was known as the Smyth Report, after its author, Professor Henry DeWolf Smyth. Smyth taught Physics at Princeton …
