• The Face Tells All

    Updated: 2010-09-30 14:20:00
    : Stay Informed Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Home Our Work Policy Research Media Contribute Contact Blog The Face Tells All by Duyeon Kim contact information WHAT'S IN A FACE What is Kim Jong-un like He surely cannot be interviewed nor can anyone fly to Pyongyang to meet his friends and family . So as soon as Kim Jong-un's photo was revealed , South Korean physiognomists got right down to business analyzing every feature to gauge his personality and character . The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has taken the liberty of translating the results of a study reported by South Korea's Yonhap News . Agency Duyeon Kim 202-546-0795 dkim armscontrolcenter.org Duyeon Kim is the Deputy Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation at the Center for Arms Control and

  • Kim Jong-un Unveiled

    Updated: 2010-09-30 11:39:00
    North Korea released photos of Kim Jong-il's youngest son and heir Kim Jong-un after being hid behind a veil for at least 27 years.

  • Nuclear News: Funky Town Finance Meets The Nuclear Renaissance

    Updated: 2010-09-30 08:53:00
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  • $624 million increase for NNSA weapons activities included in CR

    Updated: 2010-09-29 23:34:41
    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 624 million increase for NNSA weapons activities included in CR Kingston Sep 29, 2010 0 As Laicie noted yesterday , with the end of FY 2010 set for 12:00 AM on Oct . 1, the last major piece of legislation lawmakers need to wrap up before heading out for the elections is a Continuing Resolution CR to ensure that the federal government keeps . operating While the CR will fund most programs at FY 2010 spending levels through December 3, the Senate version of the bill contains some exceptions for funding above FY 2010 . levels One of those exceptions is the Obama administration's budget request for a 624 million increase for weapons

  • Nuclear News: Pakistan, A Nuclear Proliferator, Will Chair U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Agency

    Updated: 2010-09-29 17:33:00
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  • Game Time for New START

    Updated: 2010-09-29 13:19:48
    Despite the near-unanimous support for the treaty by prominent experts, most Republicans have yet to take a position on the arms control pact.

  • (UPDATED) Kim Jong-un On the Succession Fast-Track

    Updated: 2010-09-29 12:00:00
    North Korea has essentially confirmed that Kim Jong-il's youngest son Kim Jong-un will be his successor. On September 27, 2010, the 27-year-old was promoted to a four-star general of the North's military and further decorated with two powerful political posts.

  • Kim Jong-un On the Succession Fast-Track

    Updated: 2010-09-29 04:12:02
    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 Kim Jong-un On the Succession Fast-Track Duyeon Sep 28, 2010 0 As you know the buzz is North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's youngest son Kim Jong-un age 27 or 28 who was just promoted to four-star general . This essentially makes it official that he will succeed the ailing Dear Leader . I've put up an analysis of the latest military promotion on the Center's webiste click here for the full . story However , my analysis does not include the newest update Kim Jong-un has also received senior political posts in the communist party this was reported by the North's state-run KCNA rather late early Wednesday morning Korea time , late Tuesday evening EST

  • Enter Stage Right, Take Two

    Updated: 2010-09-29 03:10:54
    Another Chicago Boyz colleague, James Bennett, author of The Anglosphere Challenge, had a feature article in National Review, which is now available online: The Great U-Turn Admirers and detractors of the United States agree on one point: This country is unusually resistant to the social consensus and set of structures broadly known as “social democracy” or “progressivism.” [...]

  • Budget? What Budget?

    Updated: 2010-09-28 23:08:39
    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 Security Matters Budget What Budget Laicie Sep 28, 2010 0 The end of the fiscal year is nigh , and guess what The Senate hasn†t passed a single appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011, which begins October 1. In fact , neither the House nor the Senate even passed a formal budget resolution this year . To date the House has passed two of the 12 appropriations bills for 2011. The remaining 10 have yet to be reported out of committee . And while the Senate has not passed a single spending bill , they have reported 11 of the 12 out of . committee So , something has to be done . Enter the all-too-common stopgap spending bill , or continuing

  • 43 National Security Leaders: Senate Must Approve New START ASAP

    Updated: 2010-09-28 16:11:15
    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 43 National Security Leaders : Senate Must Approve New START ASAP Kingston Sep 28, 2010 0 The Consensus for American Security a bipartisan group of senior former military and national security leaders who support the New START treaty and other common sense measures to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism and proliferation today sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urging the Senate to approve the treaty before the end of the year . The full text of the letter and the names of the 43 signatories which includes the Center's very own Lt . Gen . Robert Gard USA , ret . are pasted . below

  • Kim Jong-un On the Succession Fast-Track

    Updated: 2010-09-28 14:00:00
    North Korea has essentially confirmed that Kim Jong-il's youngest son Kim Jong-un will be his successor. On September 27, 2010, the 27-year-old was promoted to a four-star general of the North's military and it remains to be seen whether he will also be given senior political posts.

  • Enter Stage Right

    Updated: 2010-09-28 04:57:47
    Good friend and co-author Michael Lotus, a.k.a. “Lexington Green“ has a feature article as he debuts at The RIGHTNETWORK. Congrats Mike! The Insurgency Mass political movements often begin with a single, striking event. The Insurgency began in the fall of 2008, when President Bush, Senator Obama, and Senator McCain appeared together to endorse the TARP bailout.  At that [...]

  • A Brief Word From the MSM

    Updated: 2010-09-28 04:39:15
    For reasons that are obscure to me, a staffer at CBS named Jen felt it was important that I share this embed of Lara Logan recounting the risks of reporting recently in Afghanistan. There’s also a camera guy named Ray who is a Vietnam veteran and a former Marine who is kind of an interesting [...]

  • Tinkering our Way to the Singularity

    Updated: 2010-09-26 05:40:34
    Artificial savants? Savant augmentation? The path to mentats? Imagine the effects of  fine-tuning this crude stimulation with precision, then additionally doing “x”so as to amplify the remaining abilities, not simply suppress the contraindicative cognitive process. Now imagine the potential effects of doing it on a systemic, societal, basis for a generation or two. Hat tip to The Eide Neurolearning Blog.

  • Visualizing Strategy

    Updated: 2010-09-25 05:44:23
    Is it right? Horribly wrong? Missing variables? Fire away in comments. ADDENDUM: Joseph Fouche offers up his graph of schools of strategy at The Committee of Public Safety. Note that unlike me, he has placed them in terms of “Influence…..Coercion…Violence”: Dr. Chet Richards, in his turn, kindly drew my attention back to graph he created -if memory serves - around [...]

  • Clinton PDDs and PRDs

    Updated: 2010-09-24 19:41:40
    I somehow missed the fact that the Clinton Library has posted online six declassified Presidential Decision Directives (PDD) and two Presidential Review Directives, most of which involve nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defense and space policy. PDD-17: U.S. Policy on Ballistic Missile Defenses and the Future of the ABM Treaty PDD-23: US Policy on Foreign Access [...]

  • North Korea Promotes 3 Key Diplomats

    Updated: 2010-09-24 17:32:02
    I've posted a new fact sheet and analysis on the Center's website on North Korea's latest promotion of its diplomats who played instrumental roles in negotiating with the U.S. The promotions are an apparent move to strengthen the regime’s foreign policy. Who was promoted and what does this mean for future negotiations on its nuclear programs? Find out more on  ur website.  

  • Fact Sheet: North Korea Promotes 3 Key Diplomats

    Updated: 2010-09-23 19:10:00
    North Korea has promoted three diplomats who have been key figures in negotiations with the U.S. The promotions are an apparent move to strengthen the regime’s foreign policy, but views are mixed on the implications of these sudden and surprising moves.

  • Honor, Fear and Interest

    Updated: 2010-09-22 03:05:26
      The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Robert B. Strassler (ed.) As noted earlier today by Crispin at Wings over Iraq, Dan Drezner has written one of his better posts: “The Top Three Reasons You Should Read Thucydides” 3) You will recognize some recurrent patterns in history. Thucydides will help one develop a better [...]

  • Iran, the NAM, and Amano

    Updated: 2010-09-21 15:35:04
    Since 1985 I have spent two years and four months of my life in Vienna—not bad if you consider that I never have owned or rented a flat there. I’m right now halfway through another Vienna stay with one week down, and one week to go. A lot of those two-plus years went by in [...]

  • Summer Series 2010: The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

    Updated: 2010-09-21 04:35:11
    Summer Series 2010: Reviewing the Books! continues…… The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt This summer I read the autobiography of America’s greatest near-great president. It was partly a memoir but mostly idiosyncratic, stream of consciousness commentary by TR, who seemingly grew bored with attempting a dry recounting of his life within the first few dozen pages and launched into a series of never-ending [...]

  • Help me flip more Republican Senators

    Updated: 2010-09-20 20:35:26
    As one of you said in the comments on my Friday night post, “so long we have waited for progress on nuclear disarmament!” Thanks to all who wrote me sharing your excitement about the crucial step we took towards ratifying the first disarmament treaty in decades. On Thursday we jumped a major hurdle by getting [...]

  • Education, an Internet Connection and Autotelic Learning

    Updated: 2010-09-20 02:45:56
    Sugata Mitra desribes this as an example of a self-organizing system, but a more concrete way to look at it is using technology, collaborative grouping and small doses of emotional-social reinforcement to facilitate autotelicism in students. The key cognitive info is between a third to two-thirds of the way into the video: The social component ( both student groups and the [...]

  • Chicago Boyz at National Review

    Updated: 2010-09-18 07:11:37
    ChicagoBoyz.net has hit in the last few weeks a) The Glen Beck Program, b)  Rush Limbaugh and now, c) National Review. Jeez, a conservative trifecta if there ever was one. James Bennett, who is in my experience, an extremely smart man and the author of The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in [...]

  • Sharing New START's Negotiating Record Is Unwarranted

    Updated: 2010-09-17 11:21:00
    On September 16, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved New START, the bilateral treaty signed in April that would verifiably reduce US and Russian nuclear weapons. Evaluating the negotiating record distracts from the ratification process's central purpose. The exposure of negotiating records risks jeopardizing the confidentiality and frankness of treaty negotiations. Treaty skeptics' primary justification for requesting the negotiating record is based on flimsy evidence.

  • Big News! Senate committee passes nuclear treaty

    Updated: 2010-09-17 02:00:04
    I’m climbing out from under an enormous pile of work because I want to get you this really quick but crucial update on the fruits of our labor over this entire summer. Just hours ago the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 14-4 in favor of the New START Treaty – and the calls, emails, and [...]

  • Budget Cuts Threaten U.K. Trident Replacement

    Updated: 2010-09-14 10:41:00
    When George Osborne, Britain's new chancellor of the exchequer, recently announced that the Ministry of Defense (MoD) must now pay for the modernization of the Trident submarine-based nuclear deterrent out of its own day-to-day budget, it marked a stark change from previous policy, by which the Treasury has traditionally footed the bill for nuclear weapons development. Though the plans are not new, the announcement caused a public row between Defense Secretary Liam Fox and Osborne.

  • Joint Investigation Report On the Attack Against ROK Ship Cheonan

    Updated: 2010-09-13 01:02:00
    Full text of the multinational investigation into the attack against South Korea's Cheonan by North Korea.

  • Advancing Obama's Goal to Secure Nuclear Materials In Four Years

    Updated: 2010-09-09 01:21:00
    In April 2009, President Obama ambitiously vowed to secure all loose nuclear materials around the world in four years. Significant progress has been made since his Prague speech, but greater international financial and political support will be required to meet the deadline.

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