The other day after Tom Schelling spoke at one of our events, we stepped into the elevator together. David Hoffman, who works upstairs, was standing inside. I introduced them. “A Nobel Prize winner and a Pulitzer Prize winner,” I said. “This is a pretty quality elevator ride.” Hoffman demurred that a Nobel is much more …
Information Driven Safeguards
by | 2010-04-27 | 9 Comments
Trevor Findlay’s Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance has just released a report on Nuclear Futures which makes for excellent reading. In the report, there is a brief paragraph on information driven safeguards. The Agency claims it is pursuing what it describes as “information driven” (IAEA, 2007b: 16) safeguards, supported by a modern “knowledge management system” …
Duality
by | 2010-04-27 | 8 Comments
My favorite track on the Drive-By Truckers Southern Rock Opera CD is “The Three Great Alabama Icons.” It’s about “the duality of the Southern thing,” an interwoven tale about George C. Wallace, Bear Bryant and Ronnie Van Zant. (Non-US readers of ACW who recognize more than one of these names earn extra credit on the …
ROK Ship: Typical Torpedo Damage
by | 2010-04-25 | 31 Comments
click on the image for a larger version The two halves of the ROK Ship Cheonan are raised from the sea near the ROK-owned island of Baegryeong-do, which in turn is very close to the DPRK’s mainland. The Cheonan was sunk on 27 March 2010. (Note, I have “flipped” the image on the right to …
