Listen to “The Admiral” from the At Action Park LP. Some large portion of my mis-spent youth in Illinois was soundtracked by minimalist post-punk Chicago noise-rockers Shellac. Central to Shellac’s seminal first LP, At Action Park, was the magisterial “The Admiral”—a sea shanty of sorts about either a twisted sailor with an improbably large mustache …
My Lil' PONI
by | 2005-10-12 | 2 Comments
I attended the CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues breakfast with General John Gordon, former NNSA Administrator. Everything was off-the-record, but General Gordon did mention a few stories that were in his 2001 congressional testimony, which can be shared. Arguing about the decline in US nuclear weapons infrastructure, General Gordon told the Senate: I tend to …
MI5 Document on Proliferation
by | 2005-10-11 | 1 Comment
The Guardian reports that a 2003 MI5 document, Companies and Organisations of Proliferation Concern, identifies more than 360 private companies, university departments and government organisations in eight countries as having “procured goods and/or technology for weapons of mass destruction programmes.” The 17-page document identifies 95 Pakistani organisations and government bodies, including the Pakistan high commission …
The Ubiquitous Wonk
by | 2005-10-11 | No Comments
Jacqueline Shire has has a written a kind profile of our little blog at ABC News.com: Policy wonks come in all varieties, and those who follow arms control and weapons proliferation comprise their own unique tribe. Armscontrolwonk.com is the blog for this subculture. It’s the brainchild of Jeffrey Lewis, a post-doctoral fellow at the University …
