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Hypocrisy Addendum: WaPo’s Pincus on Washington’s Damagingly Inconsistent...
I wrote yesterday about the ridiculous inconsistency of the Administration’s response first, to the DPRK’s failed launch and second, to the non-response to the Indian Agni V launch shortly thereafter....
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The FY2013 NDAA: If They Could Turn Back Time
Rep. Ed Markey (D) of Massachusetts. Photo Credit: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/File On May 18th, the House of Representatives voted on the National Defense Authorization Bill (NDAA), or H.R. 4310. The bill...
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Oh REALLY? Taiwan Prepared to Forgo ENR Technologies in 123 Agreement
Former Deputy-Secretary James Steinberg – Photo by Elizabeth Dalziel-Pool/Getty Images The roster of countries agreeing to forgo enrichment and reprocessing technologies has risen to two. As the time...
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The AQ Khan Rehabilitation Tour: Part 56
The world’s worst nuclear proliferator in the modern era is at it again, this time deigning to organize a political party in Pakistan. In an interview with Simon Henderson at Foreign Policy, Khan...
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Disappointment at White Flint: NRC Staff Approve Laser License
In what is truly an abdication of responsibility, the staff of the U.S. Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved issuance of an operating license to GE-Hitachi (GEH) for construction of the first...
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CTBTO Advanced Science Course on Verification
For those of you who don’t agree with Senator Kyl and think the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is actually a useful regime, this course is for you. And for those who do agree with the Senator, well,...
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Nature: NRC Decision on Laser Enrichment “Unfortunate”
Another voice has been added to the laser enrichment debate: an editorial in the science journal Nature argues that the NRC’s decision to approve issuance of an operating license to GE-Hitachi for a...
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Newsflash: Nuke Industry Doesn’t Like to be Regulated
I know. Shocking, isn’t it? But, that’s essentially what the Nuclear Energy Institute is saying in its totally unsurprising new report, “Nuclear Export Controls: A Comparative Analysis of National...
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The Presidential Candidates on Nukes
Courtesy of Getty Images In preparation for the final debate this evening and the FPA live-tweeting of the event — to focus on foreign policy — the Arms Control Association and Bulletin of Atomic...
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More on the Candidates and Nukes
Courtesy of PrimaryJunction.blogspot.com Tomorrow is election day — and the end of the deluge of political adverts — so I thought readers would find a recent piece at Global Security Newswire useful....
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Hibbs on The IAEA’s State Level Approach to Safeguards
In his most recent, and to my mind, revealing examination of the evolution of the IAEA safeguards regime, Carnegie Senior Associate Mark Hibbs lays out some critical issues facing the evolution of...
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Nuke Brain Drain in the Senate
With the retirement of Senator Jon Kyl and defeat of Senator Richard Lugar — of the unprecedented Nunn-Lugar initiative — Congress’s 113th session will see a significant lacunae in arms control and...
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Old Thinking, New Realities
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) (courtesy of Wonkette) In an OpEd in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, Senators Bob Corker, currently Ranking Member on the Foreign Relations Committee, and James Inhofe,...
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The CTBTO IMS: More Bang for the Buck (Pun Intended)
In two previous posts, I wrote about the work of three Ohio State University researchers who are using GPS to detect covert nuclear tests. Now, there is word that the International Monitoring System...
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The Four Statesmen Return to the Rostrum: Take Action on Proliferation Risks Now
In what seems to be a response to the Corker/Inhofe op-ed in the Wall Street Journal of last week, elder statesmen George Shultz, Bill Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn reiterated their call for...
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