Hans Bethe, an important figure in the Manhattan Project and long time proponent of arms control, has passed away today, aged 98. Oh, did I mention the Nobel prize? His 1968 article, co-authored with Richard Garwin, demolishing the rationale behind the Safeguard ABM system (“Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems,” Scientific American 218:3, March 1968, pp.21-31) is the …
Appearance of Impropriety
by | 2005-03-07 | No Comments
More on John Bolton’s nomination as Ambassador to the UN. I can think of 30,000 reasons that Bolton should not be confirmed for this post. The Washington Post previously reported that former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui maintained “a secret $100 million fund to buy influence with foreign governments, institutions and individuals”: Taiwanese officials said the …
Bolton to be UN Ambassador
by | 2005-03-07 | 1 Comment
The President intends to nominate self-described “Americanist” John Bolton to be its Ambassador to the UN. Bolton is an outright xenophobe, as evidenced by this little speech he gave at a conference entitled, Trends in Global Governance: Do They Threaten American Sovereignty?: My thesis, as a convinced Americanist, is that these happy days are over. …
Bhutto Interview with VOA
by | 2005-03-05 | 4 Comments
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (right) has told Voice of America that Pakistan held the components for a nuclear device during her tenure, but chose not to assemble them until the May 1998 nuclear tests. When I became Prime Minister I was told we had not put together the bomb. We had the components …
