Category Archives: Proliferation
Shades of Grey: "Grading" the Obama Administration on Biological Threats
Originally published here. There’s a saying in journalism: “If it bleeds, it leads.” The saying traditionally applies to crime reporting, but can be expanded to describe how the traditional media and many blogs approach any story they perceive as “dramatic”, or better yet, “dangerous”. Last week’s national security headlines were a classic example of drama [...]
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The Atomic Rulebook: Iran and IAEA Safeguard Violations
Originally published here. A Page From History, And The Atomic Rulebook On December 8, 1953, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed that there should be an international, independent, nuclear watchdog agency, an organization to monitor “the dread secret and the fearful engines of atomic might…”. Thus, in 1957, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA [...]
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Recap: President Obama’s Nuclear Week