Speaking of nuclear deterrence, check out this report from Robert Norris and Hans Kristensen on Indian nuclear capabilities. Brief summary; India currently has 50-70 operational warheads, and its only reliable delivery systems are fighter-bombers and short range ballistic missiles. However, India's MRBM (medium range ballistic...
Month: December 2008
I think we can all agree that this is the most disappointing moment so far in the Obama transition. Richardson's beard-cleansing is a clear sign that the team being assembled.
Loomis, in reference to a post at the NYT's green blog:After taking Bank of American executives on a helicopter tour of mountaintop removal sites, the NRDC convinced the bank to.
Ezra Klein and Tim Fernholz are having some fun kicking around Christopher Hitchens argument that we should defiantly refer to the city currently known as Mumbai as Bombay. See also Isaac Chotiner. When you're siding with Hitchens against Klein you should probably be careful, but...
I've been in transit for much of the week so haven't been able to say as much about the story as I'd like, but Canada's Governor-General has permitted Stephen Harper.
Peter Juul makes the case:Israel’s nuclear deterrent is shrouded in secrecy, but it is estimated to have between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads. Like the United States, Israel’s nuclear delivery.
People are always telling me that I'm only half the man that Rob Farley is, so I'm not bitter that my review of Party of Defeat only earned me half of what Rob got for his. What really hurts, though, is that Horowitz for some...
I, for one, am extremely impressed with Sarah Palin's political skillz. Anyone who can be a part of a Republican narrowly winning a state as liberal as Georgia is clearly.
Yoav Gortzak and I have a piece on piracy and the European Union up at Foreign Policy.
I suppose everyone has a punch-the-wall-with-your-face moment in this interview. Here's mine:GIBSON: You said you were not going to be in the business of nation-building. And so much of what you had to do was nation-building.BUSH: Well, what I said was, in the course of...
It's not hard to find journalists writing about subjects they know nothing about. Gregg Easterbrook, however, manages to turn ignorance into an art form.
Who knew?Bush has presided over a period of general economic growth.