Wow. David Hoffman’s The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in the category of general nonfiction. To win in that catch-all category, it had to beat out works on such modest and inconsequential themes as the origins of financial catastrophe …
“Unveiling” Iran’s New Centrifuge
by | 2010-04-13 | 7 Comments
click on the image for a larger version Iranian president Ahmadinejad unveiled the new IR-2 centrifuge on 11 April 2010 after having viewed it during its development stage in 2008. Unveiling is in quotes because we have, of course, seen these centrifuges before: President Ahmadinejad viewed them in April 2008; during the 2nd Nuclear Festival …
Arnie Kanter, 1945-2010
by | 2010-04-12 | No Comments
The late, great Arnie Kanter, attempts to explain nuclear weapons policy to a very dim student. Arnie Kanter passed away over the weekend. I am disconsolate. When I arrived at the New America Foundation, my first task was to convince Arnie to co-chair our Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative with Mort Halperin. Little did I …
Malaysia and the Bomb
by | 2010-04-12 | 7 Comments
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najab Razak, man of the hour. For real. [Update | 5:45 pm. The White House has a readout of the Obama-Najab bilat.] When most Americans think of Malaysia, they… Well, most of us don’t think of Malaysia at all. A quick visit to the Americans & The World polling site, for …
