Quote of the Week: “Mr. Prime Minister [Kosygin], if you put a defense in place, we’re going to have to expand our nuclear offensive forces. You may think, as the Congress apparently does, that a proper response to the Soviet defense is a U.S. defense; but I tell you the proper response – and it …
The Establishment, R.I.P., and Next Gen Arms Control
by | 2019-04-29 | No Comments
Verse of the week: “Back and forth, back and forth goes the tock, tock, tock of the orange, bland, ambassadorial face of the moon on the grandfather clock All autumn, the chafe and jar of nuclear war; we have talked our extinction to death I swim like a minnow Behind my studio window — Robert …
KSA and Part 810: Inform Congress
by | 2019-04-28 | No Comments
On April 18, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a brief on how the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) allows U.S. nuclear vendor firms to provide assistance and transfer technology to their foreign partners under 10 C.F.R. Part 810 regulations, and also about the basis in U.S. law for Congressional access to information about authorizations …
The Golden Age of Nuclear Arms Control
by | 2019-04-22 | 4 Comments
Quote of the week: “The fear of the bomb is not the beginning of wisdom. Fearful men have a kind of foresight, but in their partial view of the future all signs point to a foregone conclusion. How else could the frightening consequences of nuclear fission justify both McCarthyism and pacifism?” — Wayne A.R. Leys, …
