Parliament voted 409-161 to support “the Government’s decisions, as set out in the White Paper The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent, to take the steps necessary to maintain the UK’s minimum strategic nuclear deterrent beyond the life of the existing system …” I confess that I do not fully understand Britain’s system, but …
What Disarmament Looks Like
by | 2007-03-13 | 11 Comments
Jofi Joseph—now foreign relations adviser for Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D-Penn.)—pens an fanatistic article in Democracy Journal that—to my mind—nails why the Bush Administration “can’t disarm Iran.” States make the “strategic decision” over a period of years, not—as many senior Bush Administration officials seem to believe—overnight. This mistake—perhaps impatience—leads many Bush Administration officials to a …
DPRK and HEU
by | 2007-03-13 | No Comments
I followed up on Jeffrey’s excellent posts on the North Korean HEU program. Regrettably, there are no entertaining foreign diplomat stories. Oh well.
Taepodong Model
by | 2007-03-12 | 11 Comments
Yeah, that’s a Taepodong model. Geoff Forden and I have been making different sorts of models of the TD-1 and TD-2, but that is another story. (Hat tip to reader RH.) Update The Robot Economist is a sick, funny bastard.
