Avatar photoCall Me Magellan

Or Ferdinand. Either way I am set to begin circumnavigating the globe. So, dear friends and readers, drop me a line if I am in your neck of the woods at armscontrolwonk [at] gmail.com 1. Istanbul, Turkey. June 6-8. Attending the Financial Services Volunteer Corp dialogue Expanding Policy Connections: Strengthening Ties Among the United States, …

Avatar photoNorth Korean Reprocessing Campaigns

I’ve been writing the same blog post for four days. Time to just publish it. Thanks to McClatchey’s Warren Strobel and a trio of articles by the New York Times’ Helene Cooper (1, 2 and 3), we now know that North Korea has declared that it produced 37 kilograms of plutonium — and denies that …

Avatar photoSwiss Shred Tinner Docs; Khan Talks

I still can’t believe the Swiss shredded the evidence. AP’s Hanspeter Haefliger reports that Swiss authorities, under the supervision of the IAEA, shredded many documents relating to the Urs Tinner-AQ Khan case: The documents formed part of a case against three members of the Tinner family who are suspected of involvement in the nuclear smuggling …

Avatar photoMilbank on Hadley

I dunno, maybe it was the orange hunting vest. Or his comparison of the ex-parrot and the ex-candidate. But I think Dana Milbank, particularly in his columns for Washington Sketch, is the funniest, most insightful chronicler of the tribes of the Potomac. I don’t think Washington has had a columnist like Milbank since Frank Carpenter …