George Kennan on the Bomb
Quote of the week: To my mind, the nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.” — George Kennan George Kennan holds…
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Quote of the week: “Only lack of mutual trust, and not lack of desire for agreement, can stand in the path of an efficient agreement for the prevention of nuclear warfare.” –The Franck Report, June 11, 1945 The “Magna Carta”…
Who Lost North Korea?
As Jeffrey likes to say, the Singapore summit of June 2018 was a goat rodeo—the contained chaos that results from putting some kids with ropes into a corral with some, well, kids. It looks like this: That makes last month’s…
What’s Up at Sanum-dong?
Recent activity at a North Korean rocket production facility suggests that North Korea may be preparing a space launch, based on new evidence. The Second Academy of Natural Sciences (SANS), located near Sanum-dong, outside of Pyongyang, is North Korea’s primary…
After New START, What?
Quote of the week: “We must resist the childish impulse to do and have everything that the adversary has or is pursuing.” — David Singer, Deterrence, Arms Control and Disarmament (1962) One good reason to extend the Obama/Medvedev New Strategic Arms…
Trump-Kim II: The Scapegoat Rodeo
The summit in Hanoi was a bust. New podcast co-host Anne Pellegrino joins Jeffrey and Aaron to discuss, as Joshua Pollack calls it, the Scapegoat Rodeo in Hanoi.
IP3, Yeah You Know Me
The Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform wants answers to allegations about influence peddling and a grandiose plan to sell Saudi Arabia up to 40 nuclear reactors. This week, Aaron and Jeffrey dig into the interim staff report…
Ending the Korean War
This post is authored by Shea Cotton The upcoming Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi has revived the prospect of formally ending the Korean War. Much of the ongoing conversation presents this possibility only in vague terms, or focuses on whether Trump should make some…
War Drums on the Subcontinent (Again)
Quote of the week: “Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our society can remove this sickness from our land.” – Robert Kennedy,…
The Demise of the INF and the Munich Security Conference
Judging from Twitter, the Munich Security Conference is talking about the demise of the INF Treaty. Jeffrey, back in California after his sojourn to Vermont and Aaron revisit INF pods of the past to focus on what really matters: Getting Taylor Swift…