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Charles Krauthammer is a rapier-witted columnist who reminds me of Joseph Alsop, who skewered liberals, détentists, and anti-Vietnam War activists in Washington Post op-eds during the Cold War. Alsop used his Georgetown salon to extend his influence; Krauthammer’s salon is…
When Jimmy Carter was last in Pyongyang, according to KCNA, he was reminded that “it is the behest of President Kim Il Sung to denuclearize the peninsula.” How wholeheartedly NDC Chairman Kim Jong Il shares that wish is another question.…
UCS’s David Wright has written a nice post at All Things Nuclear that replots a graph originally produced by IISS to explain that ICBMs are hard to build because the principal trick to increasing range is adding fuel:
The clearest thinking and writing I’ve ever done was under the influence of chemo drips. The prospect of death can be life affirming… or not. The Soviet Union was on a chemo drip for the decade before it died, but…
I am just back from a swing through Asia that ended in a little visit to the Lighthouse of Hope for Happiness and Prosperity on Earth — better known as the Korea Institute for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control. (Think I…
With DC returning back from its summer vacation, there are numerous events going on around the city. Several events are today and a few later in the week. September 13, 12:00-1:30 p.m., Gen. Kevin Chilton, Commander, U.S. Strategic Command, “Nuclear Deterrence,…
Last Thursday, Alireza Jafarzadeh of NCRI fame held one of his trademark press conferences to announce the discovery of a hidden Iranian enrichment facility, near Qazvin, to the assembled news media. The AEOI — the Iranian nuclear authority — has…
Well, folks, it’s that time of year again: the Silly Season is drawing to a close, and the US Senate will be back in session next week. When it came to arms control issues, “Silly Season” was celebrated on the…
Stimson has just published a report on the history of nuclear threat-making that was a project of mine for a few months earlier this year. It’s about 30 pages long, including the data set, so I thought I’d provide a…
My alter ego, Chauncey Gardiner, joins me (again) for this post, which is prompted, no doubt, by an August spent pulling weeds in the bog garden and thinking/writing about U.S.-Pakistan nuclear relations.
