Last Thursday, Alireza Jafarzadeh of NCRI fame held one of his trademark press conferences to announce the discovery of a hidden Iranian enrichment facility, near Qazvin, to the assembled news media. The AEOI — the Iranian nuclear authority — has denied the claim. The reaction from Washington, too, has been cool.
New START and Senate Politics
by | 2010-09-10 | 13 Comments
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 …
Nuclear Threats
by | 2010-09-10 | 9 Comments
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 …
Working at the Margins
by | 2010-09-07 | 9 Comments
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.
