Credit: Brad Lindsey Sorry about the dearth of posting lately — last week was one of those periods where I am pretty convinced I should have gone to law school instead of getting a PhD. On an amusing note, the Tri-City Americans — a Western Hockey League team based in Kennewick, WA — held the [...]
Six months ago I aired here some initial thinking aloud which was ongoing inside the US Executive Branch about whether to go forward with a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement (a so-called 123 agreement) with Saudi Arabia. Since then, there has been some further internal discussion of this issue. In the above post, I wrote that Saudi officials [...]
[ by Charles Cameron ]
I’m hoping to give an extended treatment to Glenn Beck’s new documentary on Mahdism and Iranian nuclear ambitions shortly, not because I think Mahdism is unimportant – I don’t – but because I don’t think Beck is listening to some of the people with the most in-depth knowledge of the situation.
In [...]
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You know, I really enjoy building my DoubleQuotes. They can be entirely frivolous, as is this one, for instance:
with its touch of gothic — a taste I share with my friend Bryan Alexander.
Or they can work like a Necker cube, offering opposite framings with which to view a single topic [...]
Hey….all right….who keeps ordering these things anyway?
Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy by John R. Hale
Lighter fare, than usual. [...]
To the men of Battle Company, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington for RESTREPO receiviong a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
From blogfriend HistoryGuy99:
Restrepo Earns a Well Deserved Nomination
The filimakers, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington spent 15 months off and on with the soldiers capturing the essence of men under fire and how they [...]
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I am, admittedly, very interested in religion, and Christianity has been the mother-lode for me of the imagery, gestures and profound words that can move heart, soul, mind and imagination into a greater depth.
Advertising, on the other hand… well, let’s just say that the best of it plays on imagination, too, [...]
It has come to my attention that I have not been invited to a few meetings recently because some people mistakenly believe I have already moved to Monterey. I am still in DC here, for a year. Maybe longer if people stop inviting me to things!
President Barack Obama demanded in his 2011 State of the Union Address that North Korea abandon its nuclear arsenal. He also made it clear that Washington stands firmly by Seoul, implying that Pyongyang will not be able to drive a wedge between the allies.On Friday, January 21 at 2:00 pm, I will serve as a discussant on a panel in Washington hosted by the University of California-San Diego’s Institute for Global Conflict an Cooperation. Come join us. Details after the jump … The three papers are very interesting, especially the one by Anne Harrington de Santana. Of the [...]
In the wake of the Senate’s consent to New START, Washington’s wonkdom is focusing on ballistic missile defenses and tactical nuclear weapons. The reasons why are clear enough: The Senate has laid down markers calling for discussions on Russia’s non-strategic nuclear weapons and the deployment, as promised, of planned theater missile defenses. The former will [...]Last week, I made available two IAEA documents relating to the establishment of Fuel Bank – the BOG Resolution (GOV/2010/70) and a supporting document (GOV/2010/67). Here are two more: Assurance of Supply, Information from the IAEA Secretariat with respect to the comments and questions of Member States, 2010/Note 1 (28 January 2010) Request by the [...]Here is the US Department of State’s translation of the Russian resolution of ratification for the New START treaty. U.S. Department of State Office of Language Services Translating Division LS No. 01-2011-0191 Russian/English PH+JS/VL+PH Translation Draft No. 382931-5 Second reading FEDERAL LAW On Ratification of the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of [...]I have acquired two IAEA documents relating to the establishment of an IAEA fuel bank, which I am making available to the community as a public service. Have at ‘em. Assurance of Supply, Establishment of an IAEA Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank for the Supply of LEU to Member States, GOV/2010/67, (26 November 2010) Assurance [...]