• Dialing for Proliferation Dollars

    Updated: 2010-03-20 01:52:10
    : ArmsControlWonk.com Home About Book Archive Contact Dialing for Proliferation Dollars posted Friday March 19, 2010 under proliferation-networks missiles by geoffrey_forden Proliferation for profit is in the air . You can hardly turn on your TV or radio without seeing David Albright talking about his excellent new book , Peddling Peril . I have long advocated thinking about proliferation as a business and applying the results of research on the diffusion of technology to understanding how countries get the infrastructure and know-how for making WMD and the means to deliver them . As such , it would be nice to understand the amount of profit a proliferation profiteer like A . Q . Khan or North Korea makes on selling various technologies the world would rather see end . If we could understand the amount of profit to various forms of proliferation , say selling missiles vs . missile factories , we might be able to understand how the nature of proliferation is changing . Unfortunately , it is very hard know the profits associated with any given sale or even industry . It is even hard to get firm numbers of the gross transaction much less the profit made . I have tried to assemble a

  • New START: Symbol or Substance?

    Updated: 2010-03-19 17:44:23
    Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog New START : Symbol or Substance Travis Mar 19, 2010 0 Over at TNI the Nixon Center†s Paul Saunders considers the international and domestic political implications of New START . Saunders is right that any ratification problems in the United States will suggest that “the administration is too weak to accomplish its goals,” which will undercut President Obama†s credibility and efficacy not only domestically but also during future international initiatives including non-nuclear ones It also seems clear that any ratification problems in Russia will “buttress not only Mr . Putin†s position , but also that of Russia†s already large group of America-skeptics . This group would prefer closer relations with China , a much less demanding partner,” as Saunders . writes Saunders errs , however , by asserting that “the talks on a new arms-control agreement are more symbolic than substantive,” and that the Bush administration may have been right to regard “binding treaties with complex verification measures as

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