My latest column in the Bulletin is all about Iran sanctions: what they’re good for and why they’re so hard to get (not necessarily in that order). Go on, go read it; I’ll bet you’ll never guess what Roswell Gilpatric & Co. have to do with the story. But to make a long story short, …
Nightmare Scenarios for the NPT
by | 2010-06-02 | 35 Comments
Any conference that requires consensus, with almost two hundred potential vetoes, has two most-likely outcomes: a lowest common denominator success or an ugly mess. The 2005 NPT Review Conference was an ugly mess. The 2010 Rev Con was a lowest common denominator success. It still had its regrettable aspects — some of which were highlighted …
Video of Naro-1’s August 2009 Failure
by | 2010-06-01 | 8 Comments
A portion of the Naro-1’s payload can be seen in the low right hand corner of this frame of the payload rocketcam. Half of the clam shell nose fairing remains in the left half of the image. Today’s techno-wonk exploration of last year’s Naro-1’s failure is only made possible by the brilliant internet searching of …
GOV/2010/28 and GOV/2010/29
by | 2010-05-31 | 10 Comments
Here are the most recent Director-General’s reports on Iran and Syria. Since it is Memorial Day, I am not going to even bother reading these until tomorrow. Update | May 31, 7:59 am I’ve edited the post a couple of times with regard to sourcing.
