My piece on the NPR is up at TAP. Changing nuclear weapons policy means negotiating with a vast national security bureaucracy -- involving the Pentagon, the State Department, the Department of Energy, and the uniformed military services -- that was designed in the late 1940s,...
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I'll have an article about the NPR coming out tomorrow at TAP, but suffice to say that I'm not particularly impressed with the Obama NPR. Every policy document requires compromise,.
You just knew that the announcement that the US wouldn't respond to a chemical attack with nuclear weapons would bring out the real idiots. Thers is on the case, but.
The New York Times published another article on the Brookings write-up of an Israel-Iran wargame conducted in December. The opening stages of the game were strikingly similar to the Patterson Israel-Iran game of last month; Israel attacks without notifying the US, Iran responds in measured...
Colin Powell on nuclear weapons:Via Wonk Room, this is the introduction to Nuclear Tipping Point, a film put together by the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Last week, the JASON study on the viability of service life extension for the US nuclear arsenal appeared in several places. The conclusions were reassuring; there is no reason to.
Nicholas Thompson'sThe Hawk and the Dove is an exceptionally readable dual biography of George Kennan and Paul Nitze. George Kennan is, to some, rather an odd dove; he helped formulate the vision of containment that led to NSC-68 and militarized confrontation between the United States...
I had the honor on Monday of Blogging Heads with Professor John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center at THE Ohio State University. The.
Check out this (somewhat dated) article on Israeli missile defenses. The article makes the point that Israel's missile defenses have progressed to the point that even a concerted Iranian ballistic.
I have a short article on electro-magnetic pulse up at Right Web: The 90 percent casualty estimate advanced by EMP awareness advocates hypes the notion that the United States faces potential annihilation at the hands of its enemies, and goes a step farther: even the...
Jeffrey Herf has taken to The New Republic in an effort to convince Americans that negotiations will go nowhere unless we threaten Tehran with an extensive bombing campaign. Herf is.
The Washington Post had a nice article last week about Project Sapphire, the Clinton-era effort to spirit 600kg of enriched uranium out of Kazahkstan. If you haven't read it, take.