Monday linkage

by Sam Roggeveen - 29 June 2009 1:52PM

Why governments shouldn't subsidise clean energy.
Mobile phones are reaching the Mongolian countryside.
Two regional maritime stories via Nosint: deepening cooperation between Beijing and Islamabad; and Singapore launches the first of a new class of submarine.
The UN and WTO have released a report on free trade and climate change.
Further to Andrew Selth's post below, New Mandala has a round-up of links on Burmese nuclear issues.
A university student tries to make a toaster from scratch (h/t Marginal Revolution). The project echoes this famous fable about modern economics: I, Pencil.
Arms Control Wonk (and its readers) assembles the best one-liners about nuclear weapons. Dr Strangelove features heavily.

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