Avatar photoMore on the NORK declaration

I’m back from Wye now. The (fairly awful) photo is of Jeffrey, Wonk alum Jane Vaynman and me. It turns out that Jane and I have the same all-time favourite Foreign Affairs article: the one on monkey sex. In my jet-lagged state I have been trying to catch up on North Korea news. According to …

Avatar photoVon Hippel on Albright

Frank Von Hippel posted a comment in defense of David Albright which emphasizes the most important point — that the most important credential is one’s work. And by that standard, David is invaluable. The comment is buried on the website where the original article was posted. Here is the full text: A Nuclear Expert Who …

Avatar photoMinimum Deterrence

Greetings from Aspen Institute’s Wye River Conference Center on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. James Acton and I are on a panel together, talking about nuclear weapons and nonproliferation. I was, a few months ago, at a conference where a grand old man quipped that arms control advocates have been engaged in the same stale debate for …

Avatar photoRitter v. Albright

Did anyone else see Scott Ritter’s deeply personal attack on David Albright? It is high time the mainstream media began dealing with David Albright for what he is (a third-rate reporter and analyst), and what he isn’t (a former U.N. weapons inspector, doctor, nuclear physicist or nuclear expert). It is time for David Albright, the …