The US has apparently finished drafting the NSG exemption for nuclear trade with India (apologies, this is a few days old—I’ve been behind on my blogging). At a meeting in London last month US Ambassador to the IAEA Greg Schulte said that both India and the US wanted a “clean” exemption (i.e. one with no …
IHOP of Doom
by | 2008-08-12 | 10 Comments
People often ask me why, as a philosophy major, I ended up in this particular field. I was an epistemologist — someone who studied knowledge and justified belief. The art of intelligence is, in that way, a massive exercise in practical epistemology. Today, Erroll Morris — a wonderful film-maker who shares my epistemological predilections — …
Marisa Ann Sketo-Kirsh
by | 2008-08-11 | 5 Comments
You may recall Asher Karni — the Israeli citizen living in South Africa who pled guilty to assisting the Pakistani nuclear program. One of his alleged accomplices went on trial recently, according to Caryn Dolley in the Cape Times: AN AMERICAN woman suspected of smuggling components of weapons of mass destruction between South Africa and …
Continuous Deterrence: Still Necessary?
by | 2008-08-08 | 21 Comments
I’ve had UK nuclear issues on my mind a lot recently—all sparked off by my Barcelona talk, I guess. Preparing for that talk, I spent a lot of time reading the transcript of the House of Commons Defence Committee’s enquiry into the replacement of the Vanguard SSBNs. One aspect of the debate that interested me …
