Arms Control Wonk

Before North Korea, on 4 March, said it was no longer bound to its 1999 missile launch moratorium, Time Magazine published a 20 February article making an old charge: “Administration officials think it may be cheating [on the moratorium] by using Iran as its proxy.” Reports that North Korea has been circumventing the testing moratorium …

Bulletin to Anne Applebaum and others who argue that John Bolton’s “blunt” manner makes him “an ideal candidate to be America’s U.N. ambassador”: your boy has a history of doing stupid things. Competence matters, kids. Case in point: Bolton’s fave strategy of naming countries who (the US thinks) are violating international arms control agreements. Additionally, …