I really hate putting public service announcements on the blog, in part because there are so many worthwhile causes. Still, I make an exception every now and again. Friday, September 30 is the deadline for two really important opportunities. First, the Council on Foreign Relations is offering an International Affairs Fellowship in Nuclear Security, with [...]
It’s been a long time since I last guest blogged on ACW, and it feels good to be back. I’m glad to see that my avatar still looks stern and angry. As some may have noticed, last week’s IAEA General Conference ended without member states being able to agree on a safeguards resolution. Reuters put [...]
This morning at the 2011 IAEA General Conference in Vienna, the IAEA’s member states passed the resolution GC(55)/L.5, “Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement between the Agency and the DPRK,” by consensus. It was sponsored by 44 states. Yeoman’s work was done by Canada, and the original sponsoring group included Australia, Japan, ROK, U.K., and the U.S. [...]
The Obama administration’s arms control team has to be tired. It took great effort to secure two time-sensitive and essential agenda items – negotiating a new strategic arms reduction treaty to replace one that was due to expire in December 2009, and engineering a positive NPT Review Conference in May 2010. President Obama succeeded on [...]
“urumqi – best lamb kebabs ever! And that’s ￥1.50 (or $0.20) per stick!” Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, August 2005 Photo credit and caption: Flickr User Cåsver Now that Fox News has released several of the documents that AQ Khan gave to Simon Henderson, I have had the opportunity to go through three stories published by the [...]Micah Morrison at Fox News, with the cooperation of Simon Henderson, has published the set of documents that AQ Khan provided to Henderson including (1) his so-called “confession” (which is hardly contrite and probably better described as a “statement“), (2) An ISI report, presumably for foreign governments in lieu of access to Khan himself, on [...]September 24th marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty’s celebratory signing ceremony at the United Nations. That’s fifteen years in which the treaty has remained in limbo, due to the worst entry-into-force provision ever negotiated. A much longer wait is in store, as long as entry into force depends on the United [...]It’s mid-September, so it must be Vienna, and that means it’s time for another spin on the Prater with the IAEA Board of Governors followed by the annual IAEA General Conference. After that there’s one more board meeting on Sept. 26, and, and before you know it, the Riesling vines in Alsace are turning yellow, and [...]Something about the whole Syria nuclear reactor story has never seemed quite right to me. When anonymous US officials began to hint that the facility struck by Israel was in some way nuclear, I wondered how solid that intelligence was. Why couldn’t they just call the damned thing a reactor? I noted that “we haven’t [...]
: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable The manufacture , possession , deployment , storage , use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is totally illegal , as the nuclear weapon violates every known principle of humanitarian law , which is a body of law based upon the values cherished by the civilised nations over the centuries to minimise human suffering . It is the duty of all concerned citizens to indicate their opposition to nuclear weapons as they concern the health and safety of all citizens of the planet for generations to . come Judge C.G . Weeramantry , Former Vice President , International Court of Justice , The Hague Friday , September 9, 2011 U.S . Desecrating the very