The UK Ambassador for Multilateral Arms Control and Disarmament, John Duncan, tweeted the news: After more than a decade of deadlock the Conference of Disarmament today took the historic decision to restart work. It is so nice to have a US Administration that is not collectively insane.
Li Bin on Strategic Stability
by | 2009-05-29 | 8 Comments
Gregory Kulacki and I often grouse about which portions of the Chinese arms control discussion get translated into English. (I grouse especially, since I can’t work in Chinese.) Gregory has taken matters into his own hands, beginning a translation project. The first article he translated is An Investigation of China – U.S. Strategic Stability by …
The Well Read Wonk
by | 2009-05-29 | 4 Comments
Reading takes mere opinion to the next level. So what are the best articles ever written on nuclear weapons and arms control? I tried my hand at this for ForeignPolicy.com a while back, but my submission was buried and received no feedback. Maybe this time, I will receive additions and corrections. With so many articles …
Surprise ≠ Intel Failure
by | 2009-05-28 | 5 Comments
That’s the “does not equal” sign up there. I overlooked something important earlier when discussing what the U.S. government knew about North Korea’s nuclear test preparations and when they knew it: There are two possibilities. Either A) the Obama Administration saw some advantage to keeping mum, and turns out to be awfully good at keeping …
