The United States, France and Britain have announced that Iran is building a second centrifuge facility at a site near Qom. Laura Rozen has QandA’s and talking points from the White House. The general reaction is that “this changes everything.” My reaction is: Damn, Mark Fitzpatrick is money. Also, this shouldn’t change anything. This is …
Paradox: Now is the Time to Deal
by | 2009-09-25 | 47 Comments
Iran has admitted that it has at least one (and there is no reason to believe that there are not more) secret enrichment facilities. More information will undoubtedly come out in the coming days but we can deal now with the most important issue: how to proceed from here. As President Obama has rightly said …
Nuclear Nightmares & Abolition
by | 2009-09-24 | 13 Comments
Back in the day, Paul Warnke and I would joke that rooting for the Red Sox was excellent training for arms control. (For non-US readers of ACW, the Red Sox are a baseball team that, until the advent of new ownership, routinely dashed the fondest hopes of its fan base.) The hopes of arms controllers …
Parking Cold War Relics
by | 2009-09-23 | 22 Comments
The two seat SR-71 never got to fulfill its primary mission, thank goodness! Or is it an A-12? I am never so glad my phone has a camera as when I am in Los Angeles. The city has an amazing density of bizarre and interesting sights just begging to be photographed. Admittedly, most of these …
