Arms Control Wonk

I just got back from the IISS where William Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, gave a speech on Preventing a New Age of Nuclear Insecurity. It is, apparently, exactly two years to the day since he last spoke on this subject to the IISS. Since then, however, the electoral prospects of the Conservative Party have …

MDA really does need to get its story straight. In November 2007, Rear Admiral Alan B. Hicks, Program Director for Aegis, gave a presentation at the George C. Marshall Institute indicating six Aegis ships armed with the SM-3 Block IB interceptor would be needed to defend NATO. But replace that interceptor with the upgraded SM-3 …

I generally avoid posting about subjects unconnected with the essential subject matter of this blog, but Jib Jab’s 2008 election song is so funny I can’t resist. Their 2004 election song had the immortal line about George W “you can’t say nuclear, that really scare me.”

… to give a talk about the UK debate over whether to build a successor to the Vanguard class of submarines. It’s part of a session on Evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence? Nuclear weapons decision making in Europe at The Euroscience Open Forum 2008. Have a good weekend.