So this weekend, Iran rebuffed the P5+1 “freeze-for-freeze” proposal for having meta negotiations (negotiations about negotiations) over the nuclear issue. No surprises there. But what next for the P5+1? I offer some ideas in my latest piece for The Guardian. Check it out.
Anybody Want To Be My Intern?
by | 2008-08-04 | 3 Comments
The Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Program is always looking for interns. You should more or less follow the guidelines here, but email the package to Ms. Katherine Tiedemann tiedemann [at] newamerica.net The most important thing is to have a good attitude. A technical background is a bonus. We can take care of the rest. Perks …
Atomic Topiary
by | 2008-08-04 | 2 Comments
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to size US nuclear forces, whether to some number of targets, or capabilities or with some other metric. (Hint: some other metric.) More on that soon, but I wanted to share a funny story I came across. The late-Clinton force sizing construct was “lead and hedge” — …
More on that TE rollover at Minot
by | 2008-08-03 | 2 Comments
A former Malmstrom missileer writes to say that 3-4 TE rollovers over 25-30 years “seems about right, it’s definitely not something that happens every day.” From what I recall of TE emplacements (I was a missileer so not really an expert in convoy or TE ops) they have special routes that they follow in the …
