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 …
Tom Schelling Wins Nobel Prize
by | 2005-10-10 | 3 Comments
Tom Schelling has won the Nobel Prize in economics! Just fantastic news. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selected Tom and Robert Aumann, a mathematician at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, for “The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.” You may know Tom as a founder of game-theory. His 1960 article …
Why I Support ElBaradei's Nobel Prize
by | 2005-10-09 | 1 Comment
Chris Matthews—in his “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” segment—was shocked (shocked!) when Andrea Mitchell learned that the United States had intercepted Mohamed ElBaradei’s telephone conversations as part of the campaign to oust him. Clarence Page looked aghast. Under what rock have these three idiots been living? Dafna Linzer broke this story in the Washington …
