Avatar photoRiyadh Redux

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 …

Avatar photoThe Smyth Report

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 …

Avatar photoStill in DC

It has come to my attention that I have not been invited to a few meetings recently because some people mistakenly believe I have already moved to Monterey. I am still in DC here, for a year.  Maybe longer if people stop inviting me to things!

Avatar photoIGCC Nuclear Posture Event

On Friday, January 21 at 2:00 pm, I will serve as a discussant on a panel in Washington hosted by the University of California-San Diego’s Institute for Global Conflict an Cooperation. Come join us. Details after the jump …