The world knows what successful cooperative disarmament looks like. When a country decides to disarm, and to provide to the world verifiable evidence that it has disarmed, there are three common elements to its behavior: The decision to disarm is made at the highest political level; The regime puts in place national initiatives to dismantle …
India and Nuclear Facilities
by | 2006-03-13 | 5 Comments
The section of this document excerpted below contains the details about the facilities that are to be covered under the US-India nuclear cooperation agreement. Asked at a RANSAC hill briefing last week why the list seemed incomplete, consultant to the State Department Ashley Tellis said that Washington will have the list within a matter of …
India Miscellany
by | 2006-03-13 | 2 Comments
Following up on Jeffrey’s earlier post , the text of the US-India Nuclear Atrocity tabled in the Indian Parliament 7 March can be found here. This State Department fact sheet is also worth reading. More items of interest: *Wade Boese and Daryl Kimball wrote a rebuttal to this White House fact sheet about the deal. …
Give the Tiki Doll Back, Please
by | 2006-03-12 | 2 Comments
From Dafna Linzer’s piece in the Post on the rise of “Gen X” NSC staffers … At the NSC, staffers said the gap is most noticeable when their boss, National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley, recounts his years as an arms control negotiator during the Cold War. “We’re like ‘Arms control, what’s that?’” said Michael …
