Nuclear Risk-Reduction on the Korean Peninsula
by | November 19, 2018 | No Comments
Lyric of the week: “Don’t want to die in a Super 8 Motel just because somebody’s evening didn’t go so well” — Jason Isbell, “Super 8” in the Southeastern album Every nuclear weapon awaits a set of circumstances that could produce truly awful headlines. An accident waiting to happen. A failure in safety or security …
The New Congress and the Lost Art of Political Compromise
by | November 13, 2018 | No Comments
Quotes of the week: “Atomic energy seems to present choices that defy wide popular understanding and control. So far, the control of such decisions is a kind of indigestible element in the operation of democratic politics.” — Robert A. Dahl, “Atomic Energy and the Democratic Process,” 1953. “The death of democracy is not likely to be …
Nuclear Navies in South Asia
by | November 12, 2018 | No Comments
India has some nuclear naval news, with its defense minister claiming a successful “first deterrent patrol.” What does this mean for Pakistan and nuclear dynamics in the Indian Ocean? Aaron sits down with friends of the pod Ankit Panda and Vipin Narang to talk about the India-Pakistan relationship, India’s ballistic missile subs, and Pakistan’s …
Veterans Day/Armistice Day
by | November 11, 2018 | 1 Comment
On this Veterans/Armistice Day, I’m reprinting a post from August 24, 2010, “The Least Abhorrent Choice.” The military cemetery at Nettuno, thirty miles south of Rome, is serene and immaculately kept. Almost as many GIs are buried there – 7,861 – as at Normandy, painful testimony of how botched the Italian campaign was. I’m named …
DPRK RV Video Analysis
by Jeffrey Lewis | November 9, 2018
INF Basing Modes, Asia Edition
by ACW Podcast | November 6, 2018
KCN-eh? October's other North Korea Developments
by ACW Podcast | November 5, 2018
Stuck on the Subcontinent
by Michael Krepon | November 5, 2018
Pulling Out of the INF
by ACW Podcast | October 30, 2018
Weapons of Last Resort
by Michael Krepon | October 29, 2018
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