I’m off to DC next week. I’m going to be appearing at the American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday and the New America Foundation on Wednesday. It’s what you call a bipartisan approach. At AEI I’m a panellist at a one-day conference entitled The Crisis in Nonproliferation: Meeting the Challenge. At New America (bet you can’t …
Nuclear Strategy Follow-On White Paper Deux
by | 2008-04-03 | No Comments
I hear the Administration has delivered the Nuclear Strategy Follow-On White Paper a/k/a How I learned to stop worrying and love the RRW to the Hill in time for the FY 2009 budget process. Of, course, the NSFOWP is classified. But rumors that neither endanger national security nor risk fine and/or imprisonment are encouraged. For …
Shea's Convention, the UAE and Finland
by | 2008-04-03 | 4 Comments
Here as promised is Tom Shea’s Notional convention on nuclear power. Two other nuclear power factoids I heard recently that may interest… First, the UAE has announced its intention not to acquire enrichment or reprocessing technology as part of its nuclear power programme. This is significant but the question is: is it a one-off? I …
AP: China Gives IAEA Intel on Iran
by | 2008-04-02 | 30 Comments
So say anonymous diplomatic sources to AP reporter George Jahn. Bearing in mind the usual caveats about anonymous sources, this is noteworthy on at least two levels. First, it is an encouraging sign of China’s (too) slow but promising embrace of the responsibilities that come with being a global power. Remember, Beijing did not participate …
