Arms Control Wonk

Rebecca Johnson, our stanchion on all matters multilateral and nuclear, has blogged about the passing of Steve Ledogar, the U.S. Ambassador to the CD who led the U.S. negotiating team on both the Chemical Weapons Convention and the CTBT. Steve towered over us all. For ACW readers who haven’t seen Rebecca’s post, here are some …

Bob Einhorn has a pretty good track record of prognosticating proliferation. Let’s hope it continues, at least with respect to Egypt. Before going back into the State Department, Bob wrote a chapter on Egypt in The Nuclear Tipping Point, Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices, which he co-edited with Kurt Campbell and Mitchell Reiss. In …

It’s a red-letter day for Norkologists. For one thing, Kim Jong-il’s in Beijing, taking what’s almost certainly his last train trip outside the country. According to the LA Times, he’s dispensed with the usual pair of decoy trains. Perhaps he’s now close enough to the end of the ol’ personal rail spur that he’s no …