As most of you know already, I am leaving the University of Maryland to become the Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. It is hard to express how excited I am by this opportunity and saddened …
Centrifuges & Limited Enrichment
by | 2006-02-23 | 8 Comments
Iran’s Chief nuclear negotiator gave an interview to Inter France Radio (in French) that was little noticed until the Iranian Embassy released his remarks. Here is how IRNA reported his comments: Larijani said that the best guarantee for peacefulness of the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran could include the following measures: “Accepting …
Springtime for Kim Jong Il
by | 2006-02-22 | 2 Comments
Barbara Demick swaps her column inches as ace international reporter for the Los Angeles Times for a turn as theater critic … sort of: Perhaps not since Mel Brooks conceived “Springtime for Hitler” in the comedy “The Producers” has there been such an unlikely premise for a musical. Chorus lines of goose-stepping soldiers and emaciated …
Where Would Jesus Look for WMD?
by | 2006-02-20 | 6 Comments
WWJLWMD, indeed. Apprently, William Tierney—leaker of the Saddam Tapes—is just too weird, even for Byron York and National Review Online: National Review Online February 20, 2006 “He Shall Direct Thy Paths to the Weapons of Mass Destruction.” The former U.N. inspector behind the “Saddam Tapes” says God revealed WMD sites to him. William Tierney, the …
