Arms Control Wonk Reader Ben Mayer—a computer science PhD student at the University of Minnesota—attended a talk by William Priedhorsky, Chief Scientist in the International, Space and Response Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory on Remote Detection of Nuclear Proliferation: an Observational Science. Here are Ben’s notes: As we have seen from the actions of …
2ND Artillery Launches PP Assault
by | 2005-10-19 | No Comments
Apparently, China’s Second Artillery uses Powerpoint, too. Paul Eckert of Reuters has a decent article on Secretary Rumsfeld’s visit to the Second Artillery HQ in Qinghe. Big events were a PP briefing on the “organization and mission” of the Deuce and a reiteration of China’s “no first use” pledge: In what senior Pentagon officials said …
My Surreal Life
by | 2005-10-18 | 4 Comments
Just be glad this post doesn’t have a picture. Working at a public policy school—where most of the students are studying environmental or social policy issues—is a daily testament to the social divide between domestic and security policy communities. Now, dear readers, you know I like an obscene joke as much as anyone (Hey Baker!), …
What Ever Happened to CVID?
by | 2005-10-17 | 1 Comment
Jofi Joseph asks that churlish question, and a few others, in a Defense News (subscription only) op-ed about Six Party talks: The oft-repeated mantra for U.S. diplomats in 2003 and 2004 was this magical phrase: complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement, or CVID. In other words, any final agreement must encompass not only North Korea’s known …
