… the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses. Excerpt from the Will of Alfred Nobel Congratulations to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its DG Mohamed ElBaradei on winning …
Hayden Beat Sweetner in the Ballmer Sun
by | 2005-10-06 | No Comments
Look for Siobhan Gorman of the Baltimore Sun to break some big intelligence stories out of the DNI’s office in future—she gives DDNI General Michael V. Hayden some sugary lovin’ in a classic beat sweetner today: Michael V. Hayden sets his alarm for 4:30 a.m. That way, he can fit in a five-mile run to …
Roston: J-Bolt Screwed Iraqi Scientists
by | 2005-10-05 | No Comments
Michael Roston adds to the list of reasons that John Bolton was a lousy Undersecretary of State—apparently he held up efforts to secure Iraqi scientists after Operation Iraqi Freedom: Regular readers of Arms Control Wonk know that the pro-international institution critics of John Bolton pursued the wrong strategy in blocking his confirmation. By playing up …
Can North Korea Produce UF6?
by | 2005-10-05 | 1 Comment
Picking up comments by Ambassador Hill at the Foreign Press Center (still not on the website), Peter Baker and Glenn Kessler report in the Washington Post that the Bush Administration plans “to push North Korea to begin disclosing the extent and locations of its secret development programs right away to test the sincerity of Pyongyang’s …
