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 …

Avatar photoBang!

CNN has more video of the Yongbyon Cooling Tower being destroyed — although most of it comes with annoying adverts. I observe that Sung Kim, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs at the Depatment of State, and Kevin Veal, from Los Alamos National Laboratory and leader of DOE Disablement Team A, are wearing suits …

Avatar photoDown She Goes

Cool. I’m off to the US from Sunday to Wednesday for a conference in Maryland (Jeffrey will also be there). It’s at the conference centre where the Wye River Memorandum was negotiated. Also cool.