If you are anything like me, you suffer a death of a thousand cuts when you see something on GoogleEarth and want to know how tall it is. For instance, you can measure the diameters of Iran’s heavy water exchange columns (3.5 m) but if you could only measure their height then maybe you could …
Trident on the Radio
by | 2008-12-04 | 6 Comments
BBC Radio 4 aired a documentary called The Human Button last night about the command and control system for Britain’s Trident fleet—and it’s available to listen to online for the next 5 days. I haven’t heard the full thing yet but it is presented by the outstanding Peter Hennessey and covers some of the issues …
Extend the Umbrella to Israel?
by | 2008-12-03 | 19 Comments
A new CFR/Brookings study, Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, recommends that the United States “enhance Israel’s deterrent and defensive capabilities by offering it a nuclear guarantee” (p.16). The study is edited by Richard Haass and Martin Indyk. The recommendation is broached in their introductory chapter, and echoed by Bruce …
WMD Terrorism Commission Report
by | 2008-12-02 | 9 Comments
The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center has posted World at Risk, The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism. (By my count, this is the third Commission to style itself “The WMD Commission,” following efforts by Hans Blix and Charles Robb and Laurence Silberman.) It ain’t exactly the 1965 Gilpatric Report, …
