Calling it “the best option in a bad situation,” Geoff Forden and John Thomson have another paper out recommending a multinational nuclear arrangement to resolve the crisis over Iran’s nuclear program: Iran would lease all its enrichment-related equipment and facilities to the partnership and would undertake not to enrich and reprocess except through the partnership. …
UNMOVIC On Hussein's WMD Motives
by | 2006-09-07 | 4 Comments
UNMOVIC released a report a while back describing the commission’s lessons-learned from its work in Iraq. The whole thing is pretty interesting…I would just highlight its explanation for Iraq’s slack cooperation with the inspectors: It would appear that the following factors contributed to Iraq’s decision not to reveal such information to the United Nations: (a) …
Random Wonk Shout Out
by | 2006-09-05 | 2 Comments
An idiosyncratic endeavor such as this blog can hardly be expected to produce predictable links or references. Yet even with a healthy expectation of surprise, every now and again, I am shocked to see a very random reference to my blog. Case in point: The Wikipedia entry for Wham-O “Super Ball” references my post about …
Feed Updates
by | 2006-09-02 | 1 Comment
For those of you frustrated with the wonk feed lately – I have some good news. We pushed through a major update this weekend that should stabilize a newly validated feed. So please rejoin us. And if you are (still) experiencing any issues just comment here. Also new this weekend – we’ve stopped broadcasting your …
