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 …
North Korea's Indigenous Bomb Design
by | 2010-05-06 | 10 Comments
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 …
Grading the NPR: New Warheads
by | 2010-05-05 | 6 Comments
The United States will not develop new nuclear warheads or pursue new military missions or new capabilities for nuclear weapons. Statement by President Barack Obama on the Release of Nuclear Posture Review, April 06, 2010 I gather that the President is hoping this will be a big applause line in his speeches. Imagine how much …
Stockpile Numbers
by | 2010-05-03 | 7 Comments
5,113. That’s the number of active nuclear weapons in the US stockpile as of Sept. 30, 2009. The Defense Department has released aggregate stockpile numbers for 1962-2009, as well as annual warhead dismantlements from 1994-2009 in a fact sheet entitled, Increasing Transparency in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile. The fact sheet does not enumerate the …
