It seems Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have convinced Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to send 1200 kg of low enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for new fuel for the TRR. Robert Naiman gets off the best line, even if it isn’t quite fair, saying “It’s …
New START and Missile Alert Rates
by | 2010-05-14 | 9 Comments
We have a bunch of New START documents now, including the article-by-article analysis and an unclassified summary of the 1251 report. I am still a little puzzled by the proposed treaty compliant force structure, but I think — think — the Administration might have decided to reduce the alert rate of the ICBM force. New …
Canada Reclaims its Space
by | 2010-05-14 | 6 Comments
Canada is again a serious player on space security. One case in point is a thoughtful paper submitted to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva last June (CD/1865, “Working Paper on the Merits of Certain Draft Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures and Treaty Proposals for Space Security”). This Working Paper begins with a reminder of how …
Israel: Between Dimona and Democracy
by | 2010-05-13 | 12 Comments
The Columbia University Press website has announced the forthcoming release of a new book by Avner Cohen, best known as the author of Israel and the Bomb (1998). His new work is titled, The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb. The publisher’s text: The bomb is Israel’s collective ineffable—the nation’s last taboo. This bargain …
