This is a guest post from my colleague Margaret Croy. Dual Use in the DPRK: Uranium Extraction from Phosphate Fertilizer Factories Last June, while going through Google Earth and trying to geolocate some of the facilities linked to North Korea’s nuclear fuel cycle, I bumped into some of my old research on nuclear safeguards challenges …
Mort Halperin and the Okinawa Decision
by | 2020-04-10 | No Comments
Mort Halperin a giant as an academic and a policy practitioner. And he’s working on a memoir that covers his sixty year career in foreign policy. Mort played an important role in the US decision to revert Okinawa to Japanese control without nuclear weapons — a case study Jeffrey teaches in is class on decision-making. …
The Most Consequential Step
by | 2020-04-03 | 3 Comments
Diversion of the week: I strongly recommend the movie “Heart and Souls” (1993) starring a very young Robert Downey, Jr., the great Alfre Woodard, the under-appreciated straight man, Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick and Tom Sizemore. We usually settle for one, movie-ending feel good moment. Guys: think of the having-a-catch-with-Dad scene in “Field of Dreams.” Gets …
Biden and the Bomb
by | 2020-03-26 | No Comments
Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. While the popular perception of Biden is that he’s quite moderate, on nuclear issues he’s always been relatively progressive. Aaron and Jeffrey discuss Biden and bomb. Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!
