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Reflections on 30th Anniversary of June 12 Peace Rally
Demonstrators at the 12 June 1982 rally in NYC. Source: Hilobrow How things have changed! Thirty years ago, on June 12, 1982, one million people gathered in New York City’s Central Park to rally in...
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Has Israel Equipped Submarines with Nuclear Weapons?
Source: Wikipedia. Following up on the controversial Guenther Grass poem discussed in a previous post, Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine published last week a very long article addressing the question of...
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Publication of Second Bird Flu Paper
Photo Credit: Dirk-Jan Visser (Cordon Press) After prolonged controversy, Science magazine has published in its current issue the second of the bird flu papers detailing how a human-transmissible...
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Still Droning On
Photo Credit: northropgrumman.com Yesterday’s Review section of the Sunday New York Times carried an “analysis” piece by journalist Scott Shane, “The Moral Case for Drones,” which was really more in...
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Open a Second Diplomatic Front to Contain Iranian Nuclear Ambitions?
In an editorial this week prompted by renewed saber-rattling by Israel’s leadership, The New York Times argues for giving Iran sanctions time to do their work and for intensified diplomacy. Though the...
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Iran: Let’s Avoid Partisan Warfare
This week the International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to release another status report on Iran’s nuclear program that is expected to raise new troubling concerns. It comes on the heels of the...
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Can We Live with a Nuclear-Armed Iran?
Photo Credit: Iran’s Presidency Office Handout/EPA Bill Keller of the New York Times had a column in the Monday paper addressing the question of whether, if we have to choose between attacking Iran...
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Nuclear Iran: Do I Need to Eat My Words?
Yesterday, commenting on an op-ed piece by Bill Keller, I generally agreed with the Times‘s former executive editor regarding the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran and expressed satisfaction that the...
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Iran Enrichment: Time for Diplomacy
Greg Thielmann in a recent blogpost makes a trenchant observation regarding the latest IAEA report on Iran: That, despite the generally tough tone of the report, the amount of 20-percent enriched...
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Obama’s Second-Term Agenda
Photo Credit: John Shinkle In terms of establishing the conditions for a world without weapons of mass destruction (the main theme of this blog), we might as well say frankly that Obama’s first term...
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Japan’s Plutonium Problem
After Iran, arguably the most urgent problem in nuclear nonproliferation policy is Japan’s huge and growing stockpile of separated plutonium, its plans to start commercial reprocessing of spent nuclear...
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Our Third Most Urgent Nonproliferation Priority
With the outcome of the U.S. presidential election and the transition from the first to second Obama term, it’s a time for pundits to compile to-do lists. For example, fellow blogger Jodi Lieberman...
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Nuclear Weapons Accomplishments in the Chu Years
Departing Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s farewell letter is not the usual five paragraphs consisting of gradiose claims and bromides for the ages. At more than 3,750 words, it is the length of a college...
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North Korean Nuclear Test: What Is the Nature of the Threat?
South Koreans watch state coverage of North Korea’s third nuclear test. Photo: Getty From a global perspective, any new entry into the “nuclear club” is high undesirable as such: With every new...
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Iran: Cutting the Gordian Knots
The good news in nuclear arms control this last week was of course China’s rather surprising decision to join in international sanctions against North Korea. The single most important thing about...
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