Avatar photoNew START and Senate Politics

Well, folks, it’s that time of year again: the Silly Season is drawing to a close, and the US Senate will be back in session next week. When it came to arms control issues, “Silly Season” was celebrated on the op-ed pages; during the time between the last Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on New …

Avatar photoNuclear Threats

Stimson has just published a report on the history of nuclear threat-making that was a project of mine for a few months earlier this year. It’s about 30 pages long, including the data set, so I thought I’d provide a summary of the findings, with a focus on a few things of particular interest to …

Avatar photoWorking at the Margins

My alter ego, Chauncey Gardiner, joins me (again) for this post, which is prompted, no doubt, by an August spent pulling weeds in the bog garden and thinking/writing about U.S.-Pakistan nuclear relations.

Avatar photoInspector Designations

The long-running dispute over IAEA inspector designations stands out in the latest report on Iran. Iran rejects inspectors. The IAEA is not happy with it. But who is right and who is wrong? As so often, there are no easy answers.