Avatar photoMahley On Libya

A couple of weeks ago, Judy Miller made a passing reference to “a ‘Lessons Learned’ paper for an arms-control newsletter” written by Ambassador Donald Mahley, Senior WMD Representative in Libya. I was like, what Lessons Learned paper? So was Kerr. Turns out, Mahley penned an article for The Arena, a publication of the now defunct …

Avatar photoBombs From Space

Christopher Stone, “a space/missile officer with Air Force Space Command-Reserve Component”, has written an article in the Space Review blaming “certain circles” and “political” reasons for the lack of orbital strike weapons. Stone omitted, as a reason, the laws of physics, which presumably also hate our freedoms. Fortunately, David Wright and Laura Grego have penned …

Avatar photoBlix on India

Hans Blix came out against the US-India nuclear deal, kind of—according to a press release from Ed Markey’s (D-MA) office: “I am concerned about the impact on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. These concerns could be met if India, Pakistan, the United States, and other states committed themselves to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and …

Avatar photoIran and Google Earth

Geoff Forden at MIT has a sweet tour of Iran’s nuclear facilities for Google Earth—including Arak, where for some strange reason the Bush Administration believes Iran should be able to produce two bombs worth of plutonium a year. (WHAT? You don’t have Google Earth? Click here you Luddite.)