Hey folks, sorry for the long absence. Xiamen is fantastic … much more exciting than the blue glow of my laptop. What little time I’ve spent online has been sunk on my book, a forthcoming article and, you know, managing the atom. Anyway, I came all the way to China to learn something about Russia. …
The Boyz From Princeton
by | 2006-09-21 | 2 Comments
Alex Glaser and Scott Kemp (above) gave a talk on Gas Centrifuges and the future of nonproliferation at Tsinghua University, with Li Bin as host. The talk was cool, but the diagram of the centrifuge is HOT, supplanting the very excellent diagram that Jandos Rothstein created for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Li Bin and …
NPR on Iran Intel
by | 2006-09-20 | 17 Comments
NPR had a good segment [Via Laura Rozen ] earlier today about, among other things, the Pentagon’s new Iran desk. It notes that several of its staffers worked for OSD’s Office of Special Plans. [FYI, one of those staffers, Abram Shulsky, wrote this gem about intelligence gathering analysis a few years ago. Ick.] Another highlight: …
India and the MTCR
by | 2006-09-20 | 1 Comment
In the July 2005 joint statement with President Bush, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh committed India to “harmonization and adherence to Missile Technology Control Regime. The House legislation to implement the US-India nuclear deal: (more) would terminate exports of nuclear and nuclear-related material in the event that India made any “materially significant transfer of … …
