Avatar photoMore on the the IISS Iranian Missile Dossier

I was going to announce the IISS dossier on Iran’s Ballistic Missile Capabilities: A Net Assessment, but Geoff beat me to it. Nevertheless, I cannot resist, because I am in the dossier. And I mean that literally. On page 131. Standing next to a DF-2. The picture atop this post also appears in the dossier, …

Avatar photoIISS Iranian Missile Dossier Released

The Iranian missile development program holds a special place in the hearts of armscontrolwonkers. We have discussed it on numerous occasions but we have never had the sort of in-depth and yet comprehensive discussion that it deserved. The International Institute for Strategic Studies has today released just such a study and I believe it will …

Avatar photoPassings

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 …

Avatar photoEgypt, the Spoiler?

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 …