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, …
John Bolton’s Bizarro World
by | 2010-11-10 | 28 Comments
As anyone who follows foreign policy and national security issues knows, officials from past presidential administrations have a way of somehow remaining relevant, regardless of their area of expertise — or, in some cases, their total lack of expertise. No matter how wrong they’ve been on national security issues, they never seem to go away. …
North Korea Sanctions Report
by | 2010-11-10 | 6 Comments
Colum Lynch is reporting and blogging that China has droppped its opposition to releasing the Report to the Security Council from the Panel of Experts established Pursuant to Resolution 1874 (2009): The U.N. Security Council was preparing Tuesday to release a long-delayed report alleging that North Korea may have transferred ballistic-missile and nuclear technology to …
