Mother Nature’s Target List
Lyric of the week: We got department stores And toilet paper Got Styrofoam boxes For the ozone layer Got a man of the people Says keep hope alive Got fuel to burn Got roads to drive — Neil Young, “Rockin’…
Michael Krepon
The Well Read Wonk (cont.)
Quote of the week: “When I was 34, I wanted bling, because it persuaded me that I was special. When I was 44, I wanted blinis, because they made me feel sophisticated. When I was 54, I just want martinis,…
Will India and Pakistan Be Able to Step Back from Nuclear Danger?
Verse of the week: Surely we can talk again, without using cloven tongues that lisp and hiss cleft meanings, disguising our true intent. — “Surely We Can Talk Again,” Fakir Aijazuddin Dark clouds are gathering. The Trump administration seems headed…
Robert S. McNamara, Arms Control Hero
Quote of the Week: “Mr. Prime Minister [Kosygin], if you put a defense in place, we’re going to have to expand our nuclear offensive forces. You may think, as the Congress apparently does, that a proper response to the Soviet…
The Establishment, R.I.P., and Next Gen Arms Control
Verse of the week: “Back and forth, back and forth goes the tock, tock, tock of the orange, bland, ambassadorial face of the moon on the grandfather clock All autumn, the chafe and jar of nuclear war; we have talked…
The Golden Age of Nuclear Arms Control
Quote of the week: “The fear of the bomb is not the beginning of wisdom. Fearful men have a kind of foresight, but in their partial view of the future all signs point to a foregone conclusion. How else could…
What Trump Decision is Likely to Increase Nuclear Dangers the Most?
Verse of the week: “Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best…
Heroes of Arms Control
Quote of the week: “Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.” — Lewis Mumford Building something of lasting importance is hard work; tearing it down is comparatively easy. In this troubled time when the nuclear…
Norms of Responsible Nuclear Stewardship (cont.)
Quote of the week: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Theodor Seuss Geisel, “The Lorax” Last week, I offered seven norms for taming dangerous nuclear deterrence strategies: The…
Norms of Responsible Nuclear Stewardship
Quotes of the week: “Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.” — Mary McGrory “It may be that baseball is, under close analysis, pointless. What seems apparent to me is that close analysis is pointless. The…
