Feb 12, 2012
August, 2009
- Aug 27, 2009
Each day, it seems more and more likely that the US will impose new sanctions on Iran. The US started discussing the possibility with Israel and European allies almost a month ago.
- Aug 26, 2009
Between the important role of extended deterrence in the Nuclear Posture Review and the upcoming Japanese elections, more attention is being drawn to the future of the US/Japan alliance and potential for Japan to develop its own nuclear capability.
- Aug 25, 2009
Ilan Berman and Clifford Lee had a piece in the WSJ today recalling Secretary of State Clinton's recent comment about a "defense umbrella" for the Middle East to transition into a robust defense of missile defense.
- Aug 25, 2009
On September 2nd, the US, Britain, France and Germany are expected to try and persuade Russia and China to support a new round of UN sanctions against Iran. Much will depend on the forthcoming IAEA report that will detail the extent of Iranian compliance with nuclear inspections.
- Aug 24, 2009
The NPR bashing continued this weekend with Ron Rosenbaum's article in Slate last week sounding warning on the spoiler role the Pentagon will play in Obama's zero vision which led today's Morning Joe t
- Aug 24, 2009
Over the weekend, Gabirel Schoenfeld of the Hudson Institute wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal calling for an end to the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program.
- Aug 21, 2009
Revisiting the Japanese nuclear discussion, Sean Varner had a piece I picked up on Twitter (follow us as csisponi) about the prospects for and consequences of Japan going nuclear.
- Aug 20, 2009
There's been a good deal of attention to the story broken by Barak Ravid in Haaretz about the IAEA possibly hiding information obtained from inspectors about the Iranian nuclear program. The classified report, signed by the head of the IAEA team in Iran, remained as such "sitting in a drawer . . .
- Aug 18, 2009
Sentaku magazine published a translation of an article in their August issue discussing the debate about the nuclear option in Japan.
- Aug 17, 2009
It's official. In part due to demand from readers, PONI has finally decided to join Twitter. You can follow us at the username "csisponi" to stay continously updated with news about PONI and the nuclear world in general.
- Aug 13, 2009
Jeffrey Lewis posted a robust retort to Monday's post reacting to Joe Cirincione's recent article in the Huffington Post. There's a lot of the original PONI post that is not discussed in Jeffrey's post but the debate boils down to the focus on starting points, Presidential options, and consensus (or potential lack thereof).
- Aug 13, 2009
Balancing my infatuation with the Jonas Brothers and with men who "can't remember what they had for breakfast" (which is it, dude?) is keeping this "kid" quite busy so please pardon the absence of kitschy metaphors,
- Aug 4, 2009
The PONI team is headed to California this week for the Summer 2009 conference at the University of California, San Diego, August 6-7. On account of the busy conference schedule, time for updating the blog this week will be short - please bear with us - we will return in force immediately after the conference.
- Aug 4, 2009
The PONI team headed out to sunny San Diego for the summer conference hosted at UCSD. The conference went well including some of the following highlights:
- Aug 3, 2009
In response to a post last week about the linkage between START and “modernization” efforts, ACW posted a lengthy reply about the text of the Kyl et al letter and what “modernization” means. I certainly take the point
wonks would stop using “modernize” as though it has some technical meaning. If it has any meaning, we are modernizing now, though it seems clear that is not what advocates of modernization mean by the word.
Polling nuclear experts as to what is meant by “modernization” would probably produce a variety of answers and so pointing out the
