Think you’ve got what it takes? I haven’t heard where Deepti Choubey is headed, but the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is seeking a new Research Scholar & Deputy Director, Nuclear Policy Program. That’s one position with two titles, for those of you keeping score at home. Apply here.
The Mystery of Stuxnet
by | 2010-09-30 | 32 Comments
One of the strangest and most interesting stories of the last week has been the apparent cyber attack on Iranian computer systems that may have targeted the nuclear plant at Bushehr. The malware virus, Stuxnet, also struck parts of China, Indonesia, India and Pakistan, but was largely focused in Iran. The malware, Stuxnet, attacks Siemens …
Why China Won’t Engage
by | 2010-09-29 | 6 Comments
Washington is abuzz with flummery purporting to explain why the Chinese are so damned obdurate as of late. (Ah, the inscrutable Chinese.) For a representative, if credulous, account of this palaver, see Josh Rogin’s story, Has China Realized It Overplayed Its Foreign Policy Hand? Americans, it seems, are bewildered by China’s “increasingly aggressive and arrogant …
Space Diplomacy
by | 2010-09-28 | 17 Comments
Those who still seek an ambitious military space diplomacy initiative during the Obama administration would do well to dwell on New START. President Obama, already tackling half a dozen outrageously hard problems, has to work overtime to convince two-thirds of the Senate to consent to ratify a modest but essential treaty. Senate Republicans (including deficit …
