My latest at The Diplomat: The Goldboro incident is one of afamily of near-nuclear accidents, situations in which a nuclear weapon came far too close to unintentional release. The Cold War experience of the United States and the Soviet Union with nuclear safety suggests a uncomfortable truth:...
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Back from Kansas City, but still running behind... this is last week's Diplomat column, on the differences between summiting in the Cold War and in the Era of Sino-American Ambivalence:.
Interrupting election coverage for this all-important update on the structure of the East Asian arms trade: An arms relationship represents both an economic and a political commitment. What’s at stake.
Some thoughts over at the Diplomat on the debate, and on what a Romney administration Navy might look like: However, the Romney campaign has given little indication as to how it will pay for these increases. Unless it can reallocate funding from the other services,...
For this week's Diplomat contribution I discussed the impressive growth of the ROKN: South Korea’s robust shipbuilding industry (the world’s largest) helps support and underwrite the ROKN’s expansion and modernization..