The Fourth Wave
Lyric of the week: Standing in the middle of nowhere Wondering how to begin Lost between tomorrow and yesterday Between now and then And now we’re back where we started Here we go round again Day after day I get…
Michael Krepon
Happy New Year, For The Tides They Are A-Changing
Quote of the week: “We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake.” — Sir Francis Bacon Note to ACW Readers: With apologies and gratitude to Bob Dylan, whose ten-year old…
Arms Control and the Aging Process
Lyric of the week: And the men who spurred us on Sit in judgement of all wrong They decide and the shotgun sings the song … Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I’ll get on my…
The Highly Questionable Case for New Low-Yield Options
Quote of the week: “We do not yet know surely in what proportion unreasonable fears and twisted hopes are at the root of the perverted policy now followed by the Kremlin. Assuming both to be involved, we must disarm the…
Rescuing the INF Treaty
Quote of the week: “We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.” — Henry James, “The Middle Years” Yes, the…
George Herbert Walker Bush
Lyric of the week: “Maybe time running out is a gift I’ll work hard ’til the end of my shift And give you every second I can find And hope it isn’t me who’s left behind It’s knowing that this…
Chemical Warfare that Saves Lives
Quotes of the week: “Be here, now!” — Ram Dass “Be here now. Be somewhere else later. Is that so complicated?” — David Bader Dear ACW Readers, In 2007, large B cell lymphoma came to call. With the help of…
Nuclear Risk-Reduction on the Korean Peninsula
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…
The New Congress and the Lost Art of Political Compromise
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,…
Veterans Day/Armistice Day
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…
