What has been the worst display of wounded egotism, dressed up as a difference over arms control policy? On my scorecard, it’s a tie between Teller vs. Oppenheimer and Nitze vs. Warnke. J. Robert Oppenheimer always had qualms about nuclear weapons. His moral reservations grew appreciably when the Truman administration was contemplating a crash program …
More on the BUP
by | 2009-11-10 | 10 Comments
I am giving a talk today at AAAS on the Bandar Abbas Uranium Production (BUP) Center, which was the subject of Jonathan Tirone’s story last week. The talk is by invitation, but I simply plan to walk through the images to see if we can confirm the BUP is operating at full capacity and discuss …
Fingar on the 2007 Iran NIE
by | 2009-11-08 | 22 Comments
Thomas Fingar, the former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, had some rather interesting things to say recently about the (in)famous November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. You might remember that the NIE, whose Key Judgments were released to the public in early December 2007, caused a real stir at the time. The judgment …
ISODARCO XXIII
by | 2009-11-06 | 6 Comments
Andalo. Not only a beautiful ski resort in the Italian Alps but home to the ISODARCO Winter School. This year’s school is on ‘The Road to Nuclear Zero and Arms Control’. It’ll be an opportunity for an informal but in-depth examination of the practical path towards a world free of nuclear weapons. Part of what …
