Author: Cheryl Rofer

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On August 29, an American drone killed ten people in Kabul, seven of them children, none of them terrorists. The man targeted was an employee of a humanitarian organization. Making sense of partial information half the globe away from the scene is difficult, but there seem to be obvious weaknesses in the evaluation that led […]

The Biggest Bomb

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On November 4, 2021

Popular movements in the late 1950s pressed toward the Limited Test-Ban Treaty (LTBT), signed in 1963, which prohibited atmospheric testing. It was preceded by a voluntary test moratorium by the Unite

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I have read the monster Washington Post offering on the January 6 insurrection. I am grateful to the Washington Post for a chronological story of events. It’s something newspapers hardly ever do. If you read most newspaper stories quickly, you get the feeling they have explained events in some chronological-like order. If you, like me, […]
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China’s New Missile System

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On October 19, 2021
In August or July, China tested a missile (or rocket) system that may be a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) or maybe something else. I’m not a missile expert, so I have no opinions on what it is, but I know some missile experts whom I will quote. The exact nature of what was tested […]

The Two Sixties

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On October 14, 2021

Paul’s post makes a number of good points, but slips up seriously on one. For a long time I’ve thought that it would make more sense to describe “the Sixties” as the period between Novembe

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Trevor Bedford’s Covid Endgame

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On October 13, 2021
I was surprised last week to see one of the epidemiologists I follow admonishing those who think that covid’s “becoming endemic” is a good thing for humans. It is a good thing for SARS-CoV-2, because endemicity means it persists in the human population, although at a mostly steady state. I didn’t realize that some thought […]
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