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.
Medcalf on India & Testing
Rory Medcalf, writing on the Lowy Interpreter, suggests that Manmohan Singh’s omission on India’s test moratorium “won’t lead to fission”: For a start, while it might seem odd that Singh did not mention the testing moratorium on that occasion, the M-word still features regularly in Indian Government discourse. Just yesterday, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab …
No Nukes At Lakenheath
Well, maybe they aren’t, after all. As we discussed last week in the comments, there are no U.S. nuclear weapons at Lakenheath Air Base. The non-presence of U.S. nuclear weapons was confirmed by several sources to Hans Kristensen last week, which is pretty much consistent with what I’ve heard. Hans thinks they came out after …
Syria-Iran link?
A big nuclear day today… BBC News is reporting that North Korea has handed over The Declaration; no word yet on its contents (excluding, of course, the continual stream of leaks over the past few months). On a not-entirely-unrelated theme, Ian Black is reporting in the Grauniad (sorry, British joke) that according to “an adviser …
