Trump just announced that the United States will be exiting the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, which Reagan and Gorbachev signed in...
arms control
Over at the Diplomat I have some thoughts on modern arms races: The traditional logic of the arms race is bound up in the security dilemma; what makes one state.
I have thoughts on arms control and aircraft carriers: China, India and Japan do not appear to be on the verge of breaking the bank in an effort to match.
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 of the pillars of the conservative movement, made defeating START one of its...
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.
I was on the blogging with the heads:
Michael Goldfarb(!) asks a halfway useful question: Assuming time is a scarce resource in the lame duck (and it is), and assuming the votes might be there for START (and they aren't).....would liberals rather have a fight over DADT or START? As you would suspect,...
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.
David Frum compares the conventional and Team B views of Soviet military spending and arms control.The conventional view:The Soviets could increase their arms spending, therefore arms control was worthwhile.The Team.
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 believe that the US nuclear arsenal will degrade in the next several decades, assuming basic...
To follow up a bit on what I wrote at TAPPED, there's some utility in thinking about this point:David [Mutimer], on the other hand, gave a thought provoking but untitled.