Years · 2017

June 2017

14 posts

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Sechser & Fuhrmann: Deterrence Yes; Coercion No.

Quote of the week: “How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful would not, after forty years, compose our identity? The great golem we have made against our enemies is our culture, our bomb culture—its logic, its faith, its…

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Banning the Bomb: Part 2

A group of countries is negotiating a convention to ban the use and possession of nuclear weapons. The chair has released a draft treaty in advance of the second round of negotiations to be held this month.   Andrea Berger…

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U.S. Leadership on the Rocks

Quote of the week: “He was born with a roaring voice, and it had the trick of inflaming half-wits. His whole career was devoted to raising these half-wits against their betters, that he himself might shine… What animated him from…

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TELs and MELs and TEs! Oh my!

A couple weeks back North Korea unveiled its Hwasong-12 missile.  The big hulking vehicle used for the test launch was not a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL), but rather just a Transporter-Erector (TE)!