Greetings from Geneva! I have to give a talk on ASAT weapons here at the UNIDIR conference, Celebrating the Space Age: 50 Years of Technology, 40 Years of the Outer Space Treaty. My talk will center of the role that the spread of hit-to-kill technologies will have on space security. In brief, my argument is …
Bomb Scare, good bedtime reading
by | 2007-03-30 | 6 Comments
A friend recently asked me about putting together a nonproliferation reading list. I was about to start one of those massive, far too much information emails. Then I had a much better idea. I told him to go get Bomb Scare. Joe Cirincione’s new book, Bomb Scare: The History & Future of Nuclear Weapons is …
Policy Changes, Podvig on Russia & Bushehr
by | 2007-03-28 | 22 Comments
Pavel Podvig has a good column over at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The article, “Behind Russia and Iran’s Nuclear Reactor Dispute” addresses changes in Russia’s position towards Iran, which I blogged about last week, and argues that Russia should in fact complete Bushehr construction and ship fuel. Last week, Russia reportedly threatened to …
NIE on Iran's WMD Programs
by | 2007-03-27 | 8 Comments
I reviewed Shahram Chubin’s Iran’s Nuclear Intentions for the journal Middle East Policy. In that review, I discussed the provenance of the 2005 NIE on Iran’s WMD programs. Chubin asserts that members of the US intelligence community produced a “tainted” National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program that underestimated how close Iran was to building …
