A fellow UMD alum reminds me that Mac Destler — a member of my dissertation committee — wrote a wonderful summary of the test ban fiasco in a book chapter entitlted The Reasonable Public and the Polarized Policy Process. I am always amazed how effortlessly Mac writes about arcane subjects that deaden the prose of …
McElvany 2009 Nonproliferation Challenge
by | 2008-10-03 | 2 Comments
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 …
WaPo "Fact Checkers" Blow it … Again
by | 2008-10-03 | 9 Comments
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 …
Life After RRW
by | 2008-09-30 | 7 Comments
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 …
