Avatar photoMcElvany 2009 Nonproliferation Challenge

The good folks at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies are sponsoring the second annual Doreen and Jim McElvany 2009 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest. Doreen and Jim McElvany 2009 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest In order to spur new thinking and policy initiatives to address today’s most urgent proliferation threats, the James Martin Center for …

Avatar photoWaPo "Fact Checkers" Blow it … Again

Update 12:07. The egregious entry that prompted the blog post appears to have been removed. I generally have stayed away from the election, since my bias is clear and general elections aren’t really fought on the technical details that readers expect from this blog. I prefer Obama, but he’ll need McCain’s vote for the CTBT …

Avatar photoLife After RRW

Elaine Grossman recently wrote pair of excellent stories on how NNSA is modifying the existing LEP programs for the B61 and the W76 in order to achieve some of the benefits of the RRW program: — U.S. Air Force Might Modify Nuclear Bomb, Global Security Newswire, September 26, 2008. — Military’s RRW Alternative Is Warhead …

Avatar photoProvisionally Delisting North Korea Redux

Glenn Kessler has a pair of great stories on the breakdown of the October 3 Six Party Agreement. On Friday, Kessler detailed how the State Department managed to impose humiliating verification demands that North Korea was sure to reject (“Far-Reaching U.S. Plan Impaired N. Korea Deal: Demands Began to Undo Nuclear Accord,” Washington Post, September …