One lesson I take from this is the US-Russian cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation is altogether a good thing: In November 2009, six years after the government of Libya first agreed to disarm its nuclear weapons program, Libyan nuclear workers wheeled the last of their country's...
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In light of growing disquiet about Chinese intentions and capabilities in the Pacific among US security types, it's worth taking note of this fairly alarmist Russian analysis: This brings [Aleksandr] Khramchikhin back.
Quiggin on the end of the Great War: Despite the emergence of the ever-present nuclear menace, 1945 marked the low point of the 20th century in many ways. At least.
This is genuinely fascinating: When police found a russian-engineered submarine under construction on the outskirts of landlocked Bogota last week, one senior officer swore they had stumbled on "irrefutable proof of the presence of the Russian mafia" in Colombia. Before the 100ft vessel could be...
An alternative title to this article might have been "Russia's arms industry a pathetic shambles." Russia is to embark on the biggest overseas arms shopping spree in its modern history.
Nice slideshow of the 65th anniversary celebration of the end of the Great Patriotic War. Love the T-34s: But especially dig Medvedev's handshake with Death: You can pass 70-630 and.
Noah Shachtman notices what I noticed two weeks ago: The Obama administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare-brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon. The New York Times is reporting that the Defense Department is once again looking to equip...
Michael Cecire responds to my article about the sale of four Mistral class amphibious assault ships to Russia, but unfortunately misses most of the point: Certainly, there is no question.
Thiessen explains why the Smolensk crash sucks for Poland, but REALLY sucks for America: This weekend, in that same forest, much of Poland’s 21st century intelligentsia was wiped out as.
I have a short article up at World Politics Review about the sale of the French Mistrals to Russia: France's decision to negotiate the sale of four Mistral-class Amphibious Transport Docks to Russia has been met with harsh criticism in the United States and among...
Thank you, Russia: Russian state-owned aerospace group United Aircraft Corp. plans to bid for a U.S. Air Force tanker contract, teaming up with a U.S. partner, a lawyer representing UAC.
To be a bit more sympathetic than Yglesias, I think that Krugman's argument on Poland might most profitably be put into this form:A Poland with sensible institutions wouldn't have suffered.