Last winter, after a visit to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston — the Los Alamos or Livermore of the United Kingdom — I came away with a new understanding of how intertwined the US and UK nuclear weapons programs really are: I think it comes as a shock to most people on either side …
Naysayers and Defenders of Arms Control
by | 2009-12-03 | 8 Comments
Our son has introduced me to Drive By Truckers – a great band, but I’d be disinclined to rent them hotel rooms. My new favorite lyric (the song is Marry Me, in Decoration Day) is “Just cause I don’t run my mouth don’t mean I got nothing to say.” Those who trash and defend arms …
Revisiting Votkinsk
by | 2009-12-02 | 4 Comments
Nicholas Kralev has an interesting story on the impending closure of the Votkinsk Portal Monitoring Facility. The key grafs confirm that rumor that the Bush Administration made the concession to Russian on ending monitoring at Votkinsk in November 2008: Congressional officials said they were told by the Obama administration that it “got stuck” with a …
Cirincione on Colbert
by | 2009-12-02 | 9 Comments
Dear god. The best part is the sanction, bomb, marry game.
