It is interesting watching the maneuvering among various countries as the Bush Administration comes to an end. Indian PM Manmohan Singh decides to make a last push at the US-India nuclear deal. Iranian Foreign Minister indicates that, rather than a freeze-for-freeze, Iran will just chill out. The Polish PM tells Bush to stick his missile …
More on the NORK declaration
by | 2008-07-02 | 21 Comments
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 …
Von Hippel on Albright
by | 2008-07-02 | 30 Comments
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 …
Minimum Deterrence
by | 2008-06-30 | 14 Comments
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 …
