Avatar photoIndia Miscellany

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. …

Avatar photoGive the Tiki Doll Back, Please

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 …

Avatar photoIndian Separation Plan

I forgot to mention that Siddharth Varadarajan has an very detailed article in the Hindu concerning the separation plan and the text of the implementation agreement between the US and India. The bottom line, according to Varadarajan, is that India has created two “strategic hubs”: the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and the Indira Gandhi Centre …

Avatar photoBoogie Oogie Oogie

Friend of Wonk Haninah Levine takes a turn as special correspondent, attending the Hudson Institute’s Stopping the Iranian Nuclear Program: Is There an Israeli Option? with Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon, Former Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces. It isn’t quite sneaking past the velvet rope into Studio 54 and Yaalon isn’t Andy Warhol, …