As a mild-mannered atheist and a harsh critic of the Air Force, you might expect me to be up in arms regarding the use of Christian just war theory in a USAF PowerPoint presentation to missile jocks. Really, though… not so much. If you reject the idea that the United States Air Force should prepare […]
Tag: nukes
While I would like to believe the argument made here by Max Bergman, I’m afraid I’m a good deal less optimistic regarding the influence of Heritage: The hard right Heritage Foundation, one
I just want to draw everyone’s attention to the comment thread of this post. The post itself isn’t particularly interesting, but the comment thread is fascinating in that it reads almost
Now this is very interesting: US concern about the future of Trident had first surfaced a few weeks earlier, before Brown’s speech to the UN, when British media carried unattributed political briefings which suggested the Labour government intended to defer crucial Trident replacement decisions. The nuclear-armed French, like the Americans, initially believed this news was […]
One lesson I take from this is the US-Russian cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation is altogether a good thing: In November 2009, six years after the government of Libya first agreed to disarm its
This is news: North Korea showed a visiting American nuclear scientist earlier this month a vast new facility it secretly and rapidly built to enrich uranium, confronting the Obama administration with
I kinda wish a Democratic elected official would say something like this: Well, let me just tell you that the most excited I’m about is — and I’m asking Congress to pass –is the agreement to reduce our nuclear weapons. This, I think, is the most important thing, because we can talk from here to […]
So, the Air Force is still having problems with its nuclear weapons: The Air Force swears there was no panic. But for three-quarters of an hour Saturday morning, launch control officers at F.E. Warren
This could potentially have been a sitcom-worthy awkward situation. Tom Ricks and Hugh Shelton’s memoirs: First, he reports, a bit mysteriously, that late in the Clinton administration, the pres
My first column at World Politics Review argues that the United States should nudge the UK towards dumping the Trident replacement: Clearly, the United States cannot dictate British defense policy. Overt efforts to influence British decision-making might backfire, and in any case would seem inappropriate and heavy-handed. Nevertheless, the United States has an interest in […]
I’m not terribly interested in the project of calling Jeffrey Goldberg out as a propagandist; he’s Jeffrey Goldberg, so of course he’s a propagandist. As I suggested yesterday, I don
Michael Oren and Yossi Halevi: An Israeli assault could only delay Iran’s nuclear program, not eliminate it. That’s because Israel cannot sustain an air campaign against such remote target