Shortly before I left for the holidays, Congressional Appropriators provided “no funds for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW)” pending “a new strategic nuclear deterrent mission assessment for the 21st century.” The bottom line — no new warheads without a new posture — appears to command bipartisan support among the appropriators. The RRW is, for all …
Brown Back
by | 2007-12-21 | 3 Comments
Steven Aftergood passes along a little humor from the NORKs, via Xinhua News Agency: “DPRK Slams U.S. Senator’s Hardline Remarks” — Xinhua headline Xinhua Wednesday, December 19, 2007 T09:26:37Z PYONGYANG, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday slammed U.S. Senator Brown Back for his remarks that Washington should not …
Arms Control Person of the Year
by | 2007-12-19 | 13 Comments
The Arms Control Association is hosting a contest for the “Arms Control Person of the Year.” Go to http://survey.armscontrol.org/index.php?sid=5 to vote or suggest another candidate worthy of mention and why. And the nominees are …. Jonas Gahr Støre, Foreign Minister of Norway for spearheading his government’s initiative to negotiate a treaty banning cluster munitions after …
A Modest, Yet Welcome, Reduction
by | 2007-12-19 | 3 Comments
The White House has announced what it calls a “significant” reduction in the 2012 stockpile — later clarified to be 15 percent. Although the stockpile size is classified, the announcement suggests the total size will drop from “roughly” a quarter of its size at the end of the Cold War to “less than one-quarter.” That …
