Yesterday, I attended a meeting with the International Law Association in Brighton, and the Swedish nuclear programme was raised again. It is interesting that so much international attention has been given recently to what, essentially, is a but a side note in the broader Cold War narrative. Perhaps it’s because Carl Bildt, the Swedish Foreign …
The Dead Hand
by | 2010-04-13 | 2 Comments
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 …
