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: There is a far greater likelihood that North Korea will accidentally […]
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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: Earl
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 sta
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, an increase in the size of the Navy will require […]
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’