Lost amidst President Obama’s announcement that the US would support permanent membership on the UN Security Council for India, was this little nugget in the India-US Joint Statement calling for a nuclear dialogue among nuclear weapons states: They affirmed the need for a meaningful dialogue among all states possessing nuclear weapons to build trust and …
IAEA Reports on Iran, Syria
by | 2010-11-23 | 33 Comments
Here are the IAEA Director-General Reports on Iran (GOV/2010/62) and Syria (GOV/2010/63).
The Bomb and the Common Cold
by | 2010-11-23 | 13 Comments
Thank you, Dear Readers, for responding so well to the Best Quips Competition. Our panel of judges will be sorely tested. It’s good to know that, in these hard times, some of you insist on keeping a sense of humor. You have one more week to submit entries. My very first Shoebox entry paid homage …
North Korea’s Mixed Messages
by | 2010-11-22 | 13 Comments
To place a new nuclear facility at Yongbyon is to prepare it for exhibition. Nothing else makes that point as well as the easily overlooked third new building mentioned in Sig Hecker’s latest trip report, after the light-water reactor (LWR) and the gas centrifuge enrichment plant (GCEP): “the new three-story Guest House.” Decoded, the message …
