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, …
Six Party Talks Resume November 9
by | 2005-11-04 | 2 Comments
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan announced that Six Party Talks will resume in November 9. Paul has a must read summary of the issues facing the talks in Arms Control Today. ACT makes an art of “burying the lede” (lead for we normal folk), so let me dig it out for you: The US …
Arbatov on Revising Nuclear Deterrence
by | 2005-11-03 | 5 Comments
CISSM is hosting Alexei Arbatov, Senior Research Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss his paper (with co-author Major General Vladimir Dvorkin, Ret.) on Revising Nuclear Deterrence. Among other things, Arbatov was deputy chair of the defense committee of the Russian Parliament (State Duma). Dvorkin is a former Strategic Rocket Forces officer. …
