Dan Plesch has an iconic logo (left) for his new book, The Beauty Queen’s Guide to World Peace, that makes Arms Control Wonk feel strangely inadequate. I’ve only read Chapter 8, not surprisingly on disarmament. But I like what I read. Plesch “explains how the [arms control] treaties agreed up to 1996 provide the basis …
Paris Negotiations Update 19: Iran's Nuclear Programme
by | 2005-01-25 | No Comments
The Sunday Times (London) reports that UK Foreign Secretary “Jack Straw has drawn up a dossier [right] putting the case against a military attack on Iran amid fears that President George W Bush’s administration may seek Britain’s backing for a new conflict.” The dossier, entitled Iran’s Nuclear Programme, is a compendium of 22 documents, including …
The Cambone Operation: Covert Ops Redux
by | 2005-01-24 | No Comments
Wow, tonight’s Nelson Report is chilling stuff. Chris warns that further investigative reporting will reveal… … covert operations sounding very much like the Phoenix Program of kidnappings (and perhaps also murder) of terrorist suspects in one country, and the transport of them to a third country where the actual torture interrogation is carried out presumably …
Avian Flu
by | 2005-01-24 | 1 Comment
Worse than Saddam. The New England Journal of Medicine will report the findings of a group of Thai epidemiologists who conclude that H5N1 strain of influenza that killed an 11-year-old girl also killed her mother. Documentation of person-to-person spread suggests a greater risk that the H5N1 strain could produce a global influenza pandemic. The twentieth …
