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. …
Everett McKinley Dirksen, He Ain’t
by | 2010-11-18 | 12 Comments
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 – …
Musings on Turkey
by | 2010-11-17 | 11 Comments
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: …
