This is major league weird and a significant coup for WikiLeaks. Walter Griffin, of the Bangor Daily News, reports: James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building a “dirty bomb.” According to an FBI …
Nonproliferation and Banking Reform
by | 2009-03-03 | 4 Comments
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with President Obama today and is reported to be pushing a “Global New Deal” to stop the economic slide. A key element of that program would be reforming bank regulation to prevent the sort of scams that created the sub-prime mortgage mess by, among other things, providing increased transparency …
Sir Michael Quinlan (1930—2009)
by | 2009-02-28 | 8 Comments
It was with genuine and deep sadness that I learnt yesterday of the death of Sir Michael Quinlan, aged 78, on Thursday. In a career within the UK civil service that spanned 40 years, Sir Michael served in a variety of roles and departments, including as Permanent Under-Secretary (the most senior civil servant) at the …
Presidential Policy Directives
by | 2009-02-27 | 1 Comment
It’s out! We now know that the Obama NSC has named it’s National Security Council-related directives Presidential Policy Directives or PPDs — thanks to Steve Aftergood who has posted a copy of PPD-1. I am mildly obsessed by this topic of what Administrations call these documents — every President chooses something different. Since Nixon, Republican …
