I’ve noticed some confusion among folks about the disablement process in North Korea — let’s make this very, very clear. All of the disablement steps are believed completed save for the unloading of fuel, which was delayed by the need to ready the cooling pond to receive the spent fuel and is on schedule to …
One-Stop Shopping for Complete OTA Library
by | 2008-01-14 | 4 Comments
I came across this really cool resource today and thought I’d share it with my fellow wonks. It’s the complete library of reports prepared by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, with links to the full text of each report. Many of the OTA reports are classics in the field of nonproliferation, such as the …
What is arms control for?
by | 2008-01-14 | 8 Comments
I’m tickled pink that my brief comment about the purpose of arms control in a recent post has already provoked debate. I think some of you are expecting me to argue to that, now the Cold War has ended, arms control serves no useful purpose. Well, that’s not what I’m going to say. I think …
The Box is Back
by | 2008-01-12 | 48 Comments
Readers have asked me what I think of this story by Bill Broad on Syria’s decision to reconstruct a building on the foundations of the the “Box-on-the-Euphrates.” It has a vaulted roof now, so it looks rather like a Monopoly-House-on-the-Euphrates. (MHE?) I think Andy — aka the Nonpartisan Pundit — hit the nail on the …
