This is a photo I took on February 14, 1992 at one of the two Soviet nuclear weapons laboratories, the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics, in a closed city known then as Chelyabinsk-70, and now renamed Snezhinsk. Seated in front of the dusty blackboard is visiting U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker …
Iran, the NAM, and Amano
by | 2010-09-21 | 108 Comments
Since 1985 I have spent two years and four months of my life in Vienna—not bad if you consider that I never have owned or rented a flat there. I’m right now halfway through another Vienna stay with one week down, and one week to go. A lot of those two-plus years went by in …
A Curious Sort of Leak
by | 2010-09-21 | 2 Comments
I am fascinated by this curious “intelligence issue” that Senator Risch cited in an unsuccessful effort to delay the Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on the resolution of ratification for the New START Treaty. It seems, according to a pair of stories by Josh Rogin (Risch Tries to Halt Vote on New START Over Undisclosed …
The Unipolar Moment
by | 2010-09-21 | 14 Comments
Charles Krauthammer is a rapier-witted columnist who reminds me of Joseph Alsop, who skewered liberals, détentists, and anti-Vietnam War activists in Washington Post op-eds during the Cold War. Alsop used his Georgetown salon to extend his influence; Krauthammer’s salon is Fox News. Krauthammer’s most memorable essay may have appeared in the Winter 1990/1991 issue of …
