Journalist R. Jeffrey Smith has a piece in today's Washington Post which publicizes a letter released by Abdul Quadeer Khan, Pakistani proliferation raconteur, and imaginary nuke trader (the West made it up, you see) to former British Journalist Simon Henderson which ” support(s) his claim that he personally transferred more than $3 million in payments […]
I found this letter today. It comes from Words Without Borders. The author, Boualem Sansal, is an Algerian novelist, and Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010. The letter is beautiful, and worth a read. Dear Brother: I write these few lines to let you know we’re doing well, on […]
Two reports – one from CSIS, and another from RI – take up the contentious issue of the ALP. Regardless of delusions and hope, arming Afghanistan will only further hinder counter-terrorism efforts, stability, and humanitarian access.
After nearly seven years of negotiations, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, formed ironically in response to India’s diversion of civilian nuclear technology to nuclear weapons production, issued more stringent guidelines for transfer of enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technologies. The new guidelines, approved during its June 23-24 meeting in the Netherlands, strengthens the conditions under which a […]
I woke today to media reports that 15 American soldiers had been killed this June marking the highest monthly fatality totals since June 2008, when there were a total of 23 fatalities. The tone of the reports was one of surprise and an underlying view that this was a new development and our efforts in […]
We’re on a slippery slope, which we first stepped onto in April 1986 when President Reagan ordered a fighter raid on Colonel Gaddafi’s Tripoli compound, in retaliation for a Libyan-inspired terrorist attack on a nightclub in Berlin. Though Gaddafi survived, one of his children died– which rather stuck in the craw, even as one cheered […]
When I last mentioned the idea of utilizing rape as a weapon amongst what I admitted, privately, were generally naive people during a recent wargame I participated on ‘irregular threats’, people became uneasy. Our group’s moderator had asked us to think of divergent ways that we would foment unrest in a malevolent manner, and this […]
That’s what I call Joe Cirincione, Ploughshares President – behind his back, of course. He is the closest thing the arms control community has to a celeb – always camera-ready, always posed and always well-informed. And hey, he’s friends with Michael Douglas. But, in all seriousness, Joe has worked tirelessly for nuclear disarmament over the […]
Over at the CSIS Proliferation Prevention Program, program staff have helpfully culled useful articles and such on things nuclear that they are reading. They have separated the wheat from the nuclear chaff. Good stuff. The main page is here. The archives are found at Delicious.
Another interview, this one from the guy who continues to shirk responsibility for establishing the most destructive proliferation network in history and helping to arm Syria, North Korea and Iran, to name a few: Abdul Qadeer Khan. In his latest sit down, this one with Der Spiegel via e-mail, Khan actually makes the following, laughable […]
Former Director General of the IAEA and former UNSCOM head Hans Blix sat down with The Economist online in a segment they call “Tea with The Economist”. In it, Blix talks about the Global Zero campaign, how practical nuclear disarmament really is and how we should deal with ne’er do well countries like North Korea. […]
In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, little-noticed radioactive nuggets which are used for everything from examining welds to providing medical therapies were suddenly the rage. The rage, that is, to account for, gather up, and secure. Sources like Strontium-90, Cobalt-60, Iridium-192 and Americium-241 all became household words – or the closest […]
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