Mail call this morning brought a magazine in a nondescript brown paper envelope — the sort one imagines is used for pornographic magazines. If the return address affixed to the envelope didn’t say “CTBTO Preparatory Commission,” I would have been very worried. Turns out it is just the latest edition of CTBTO Spectrum featuring an …
Oh, Calm Down
by | 2009-05-07 | 11 Comments
I’ve been taking a blog break, but this one has my dander up. The Washington Times created a tempest in a teapot with a very silly front-page “exclusive” today. It’s exclusive, all right. The article distorts a quote from Rose Gottemoeller to the effect of, the U.S. would like to see everyone in the NPT: …
Sovereignty on the Moon?
by | 2009-05-07 | 13 Comments
I’m in Montreal for a conference on space debris. It’s a wonderful city (we wondered into Chinatown for dinner last night and, spiritually, I haven’t left yet) and I hope the conference is half as good. It opened today with a round table discussion on the governance of space: what can and should be agreed …
The Two Perrys
by | 2009-05-06 | 4 Comments
Former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry owns nuclear issues this week. The Congressionally-empaneled Strategic Posture Commission, which he chaired, has released it’s final report as has the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, which Perry co-chaired with Brent Scowcroft. We will, no doubt, scour both reports with glee for inconsistencies. …
