Verse of the week: “To the garden of the world anew descending, Potent mates, daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious here behold my resurrection after slumber, The revolving cycles in their wide…
Verse of the week: “I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with…
Quotes of the week: “Changes in technology…are eroding the foundations of nuclear deterrence.” – Keir Lieber and Daryl Press, “The New Era of Counterforce” “A powerful taboo against the use of nuclear weapons has developed in the global system” —…
Quote of the week: “Anyone attempting to understand why there has been no third world war confronts a problem not unlike that of Sherlock Holmes and the dog that did not bark in the night: how does one account for…
Quote of the week: “That which can be named must exist. That which is named can be written. That which is written shall be remembered. That which is remembered lives.” — Egyptian Book of the Dead Moving on to the…
Quote of the week: “Most of what we call civilization depends on reciprocal vulnerability.” — Thomas Schelling Note to readers: Here’s a taste of my forthcoming book, ‘Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control.’…
Quote of the week: “There is good as well as evil, and the man who tries to work for the good, believing in its eventual victory, while he may suffer setback and disaster, will never know defeat. The only deadly…
Quote of the week: “Until we, as a department, come to understand, if not accept, what we are facing and what should be done about it, we run the risk of developing plans we cannot execute and procuring capabilities that…
Quotes of the week: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” –Benjamin Franklin “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places…
Quote of the week: “The Strategic Defense Initiative in fact proved to be the ultimate bargaining ship. And we played it for all it was worth.” – George Shultz A great human being, George Shultz, has died after a long…
