Arms Control Wonk

What are the most significant speeches related to arms control given at the middle and end of a U.S. presidency? There’s plenty of room for argument, but here are my choices. Let’s work backward. End of term: President Eisenhower’s famous farewell address on January 17, 1961, admonishing his fellow citizens to beware the military-industrial complex. …

(As in “Zombie Fuel Swap.”) Late Update | 7 pm, May 21. A2 has asked me to add some clarifying remarks. See below. At this late date, there might be reason to believe that the LEU/TRR deal was a bridge too far; if the P5+1 wanted to prevent Iran from enriching uranium to just under …

Direct hit is like bowling—if you do not hit the pocket exactly, then many pins will continue to stand” Dr. Hans Mark, as quoted by Richard Lloyd in “Physics of Direct Hit and Near Miss Warhead Technology”, p. 12. For every winner in a Defense contract competition, there is a loser. And those losers never …

The Cheonan report is out, and it’s not pretty. The most thorough accounts of the press conference appear to be those of the Sydney Morning Herald and the New York Times. The investigators — a team from South Korea, America, the UK, Australia and Sweden — concluded that: The South Korean corvette Cheonan was split …