On October 21, 2004, Dr. Arms Control Wonk will be on a panel, “Prospects for Peace and Security in Outer Space,” hosted by Jonathan Dean and the Union of Concerned Scientists at the United Nations. In addition to Ambassador Dean and your humble author, other panelists are Theresa Hitchens (CDI) and Laura Grego (UCS) (see …
Cuba BW Effort Revisited
by | 2004-09-20 | No Comments
Continuing the Cuba BW thread, The Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq contains the backstory on Undersecretary Bolton’s effort to distort intelligence regarding Cuba. The New York Times contained no reference either to this story or the fact that it appears in the Select …
Minimum Means of Reprisal Revisited
by | 2004-09-20 | No Comments
After some adventures in pagination, I successfully submitted the final copy of the dissertation, The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age, today. For my defense, I dispensed with a powerpoint presentation. Edward Tufte, in The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. I think that the handout, which remains a work in …
New Assessment of Cuban BW Effort
by | 2004-09-18 | No Comments
The lead paragraph of “In Stricter Study, U.S. Scales Back Claim on Cuba Arms” in the New York Times (September 17, 2004) leads: The Bush administration, using stringent standards adopted after the failure to find banned weapons in Iraq, has conducted a new assessment of Cuba’s biological weapons capacity and concluded that it is no …
