Chris Nelson has a depressing Nelson Report today. Apparently no one in the Bush Administration believes that Six Party Talks can succeed: Recently, we heard a very highly informed Asia policy player, on background, explain and confirm that the basic Bush Administration assessment of the nuclear weapons situation in N. Korea is that Kim Jong-il …
British Strategy on Iran
by | 2006-03-23 | No Comments
The Times prints, in full, the British strategy for securing Russian and Chinese support for tougher measures against Iran. My favorite reference is to assembling a new package on Iran that could have the explicit support of the US. “Nick [Burns] will want to consider the scope of presenting this in that way. John Sawers, …
My Summer Vacation Redux
by | 2006-03-23 | 2 Comments
Some of you may remember that, over my summer vacation, I visited the first Chinese nuclear weapons design base, in Qinghai Province. (See What I Did Over Summer Vacation: China’s Los Alamos July 6, 2005). A loyal reader notes that the Chinese government is spending more than $10 million to renovate the site. Who wants …
Pu Aging
by | 2006-03-22 | 1 Comment
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that James Sterngold at the San Francisco Chronicle revealed new studies that suggest plutonium ages rather well (much like Sophia Loren, I observed). Sterngold is back with a longer article on the subject: Although the results are preliminary, some scientists who have reviewed parts of the research say the …
