As Thanksgiving approaches, for Americans our thoughts naturally turn to turkey. But since this is an arms control blog, our thoughts turn to Turkey — the country. The United States is pressing Turkey on the issue of missile defense at the Lisbon Summit, leading my colleague at MIIS, Jessica Varnum, to wonder whether this is …
Best Quips Competition
by | 2010-11-16 | 74 Comments
This post is geared to the silent majority of ACW readers who refrain from commenting on what they read on this site. So let’s try something new: The first annual ACW Best Quips about the Bomb Contest. (Unless this experiment bombs, in which case, the first competition shall be the last.) There are two categories: …
Moving On!
by | 2010-11-15 | 7 Comments
Although many of you already know this, I have moved over to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, where I will direct the East Asia Nonproliferation Program. I am tremendously excited by the new challenge. Bill Potter has steadily built CNS into a nonproliferation beast — did you catch the announcement of the Vienna Center? It …
Par TEUTATES!
by | 2010-11-14 | 18 Comments
After further review, the new joint UK-France nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship effort is little less effing baffling than before. We now have the full text of the Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the French Republic relating to Joint Radiographic/Hydrodynamics Facilities, and the details are much more clear. And, …
