From our friends at Infinity Journal:
LTC Ron Tira - The Uncommitted Commitment: US Military Involvement in Libya
At the time of this writing the United States may or may not still consider itself engaged in a limited-means campaign in Libya, whose declared objective is to protect Libyan civilians and whose implicit objective is regime change. This [...]
Read Max Postman sends along a picture of nine easter eggs — one for each state with nuclear weapons He explains: Thought you might find this interesting – the flags of the nine states that possess nuclear weapons, arranged in the order in which they first tested, on Easter eggs. I made these today in [...]
The most successful and longest serving Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency was the first man to hold this job, William C. Foster. During his tenure, the United States negotiated the Limited Test Ban Treaty and the Nonproliferation Treaty, despite strenuous political, bureaucratic, and diplomatic opposition. Foster’s influence and skills had much to [...]
Ya Mullen Huzzah!
About goddamn time ….
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately on state-to-state nuclear cooperation — especially the connection between Pakistan and North Korea. I recently reread Bamboo and Blood, by James Church (a pseudonym for one of the most distinguished North Korea watchers in the US). Although Bamboo and Blood is a work of fiction, and Church [...]
At one point in a wide-ranging op-ed back in March, Frank von Hippel made the case for a global switchover to multinational consortia for uranium enrichment: [It] would make it more difficult for any one country to divert the material to military ends. In fact, Urenco, the West’s most successful uranium enrichment enterprise, is already [...]
Tim Hetherington after being presented with a Quilt of Valor by the Quilts of Valor Foundation
I was saddened to hear the news from Kanani Fong that Tim Hetherington, the gifted documentarian and journalist who made the critically acclaimed film RESTREPO was killed today in Misrata, Libya. Preliminary details are sketchy but early reports had Tim and [...]
Our colleagues at Pax Christi USA are hosting a briefing on a new report about US nuclear weapons in Europe. According to their research, 24 out of 28 NATO countries support removing nuclear weapons from Europe. This provides us with an opportunity to make progress towards a nuclear weapons free world.
See the flyer for the [...]
One of Herb York’s many talents was his ability to write clearly with a strong narrative line, despite his training in physics and immersion in technical detail. See, for example, Herb’s book, The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb (1976). This slim volume tells a cautionary tale about nuclear technology. In the preface, Herb writes, [...]