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, …
Kavosh at its Peak
by | 2008-12-01 | 31 Comments
Well, I don’t know that its at its peak, perhaps the payload continued on for quite a ways. But what interested me about this picture (other than its really cool and it indicates that Iran is definitely studying its “staging” procedures using rocket-cams) is the possibility that this picture could be used to tell how …
Steps To Zero/Steps To The Bar
by | 2008-12-01 | 1 Comment
I am going to be on a panel that Jill is putting together on Tuesday, December 9, followed by a happy hour. Here are the details for the event, which will be at the Carnegie Endowment. The happy hour will be at The Big Hunt immediately after. Dear Colleagues and Friends, On behalf of Physicians …
