Click on the image for the AFP story, which has the best images, including Sarko talking and, my favorite, Sarko climbing down into a hatch. Launching Le Terrible, France’s new SSBN, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced reductions in France’s arsenal. The recommendations were more adventurous than press reporting on the Livre Blanc had suggested. Here …
Strategic Posture Commission Announced
by | 2008-03-20 | 12 Comments
And the nominees are … The following individuals have been nominated to the Commission by the House Armed Services Committee: • William Perry, Commission Chairman, former Secretary of Defense; • John Foster, Director Emeritus of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; • Lee Hamilton, former Congressman and Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission; • Keith Payne, CEO …
Disarmament and Deterrence
by | 2008-03-19 | 6 Comments
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past month or so on planes to disarmament conferences and planes to non-proliferation conferences, and on one of those journeys (to Geneva, in fact!) I (re)read something that made a very deep impression on me. It was from the debate in International Affairs last year about the …
Bullsh*t Gag Order on India
by | 2008-03-17 | 20 Comments
Want to know one reason that I hate the US-India nuclear deal? The House Committee on Foreign Affairs asked 40 questions about the US-India Nuclear Deal, to which the State Department provided unclassified answers that it refuses to release to the public. Daryl Kimball and Sharon Squassoni, now joined by Fred McGoldrick and Henry Sokolski, …
