In earlier posts, I wondered if the Bush Administration was capable of reaching an agreement with North Korea. It might just be that any agreement is going to take a little, um, initiative on the part of US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Christopher Hill—and by initiative I mean going …
Bob Joseph Just Doesn't Get It
by | 2005-11-07 | 1 Comment
Robert Joseph, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, gave the luncheon address here at the Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference. He actually described the US decision to sink the BWC draft protocol as “an act of leadership more than unilateralism.” The draft protocol would have provided a mechanism to verify the 1972 Biological …
Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference
by | 2005-11-06 | No Comments
Joe Cirincione has asked me to blog the 2005 Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference along with Hans Kristensen, Pavel Podvig and Paul Kerr. The Nonproliferation Conference is always an interesting experience for me because I tend to think the nonproliferation community overstates (1) the importance of external factors in the decision to acquire nuclear weapons and (2) …
Wolf In Sled's Clothing?
by | 2005-11-05 | 2 Comments
Dave Ruppe at Global Security Newswire got ahold of a letter from National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to an undisclosed member of Congress. Dave reports that the letter claims NNSA will simply continue to develop the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator “under a new name”: In a letter to a member of Congress earlier last month, …
