Avatar photoNORK Enrichment Facility

Well, well, well.  It isn’t just a light water reactor that North Korea is constructing on the decaying Yongbyon site. The North Koreans also showed Sig Hecker a 2,000 centrifuge enrichment facility in what was the empty Fuel Fabrication Plant at Yongbyon Brazen, huh?

Avatar photoGreetings from Brazil

My iPhone didn’t really handle handle the tropical sun very well, but you get the idea — it’s a wonk’s life. I am here for a meeting co-hosted by the Stanley Foundation and the Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais, entitled Global Leadership: Brazil and the US Confront the 21st Century Multilateral Agenda. For my part, …

Avatar photoBaikal 1

As I drove home last night after my class at Georgetown, I happened to hear the second installment in Mike Shuster’s excellent three part series on the completed effort by the US and Kazakhstan to shut down Kazakhstan’s BN-350 plutonium production reactor and transport the spent fuel to a secure storage facility in Northeastern Kazakhstan. …

Avatar photoEverett McKinley Dirksen, He Ain’t

Jon Kyl has become the second ranking Republican Senator by dint of hard work, perseverance, and attention to detail – all admirable traits. He has never voted for an arms control treaty transmitted to the Senate by a Democratic President. The Obama administration has gone the extra mile – well, several extra miles, actually – …