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 …
More on Libya's Bomb Design …
by | 2005-10-08 | 7 Comments
A few months ago, David Albright and Corey Hinderstein wrote a very interesting article, “Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks,” in The Washington Quarterly that contained some previously upublished information about that Chinese nuclear weapons design that the AQ Khan network sent to Libya: The documents appear to have been information that …
