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…
Quotes of the week: “When the hegemonic power that helped create the non-proliferation regime declines, so does the regime.” — T.V. Paul, Power vs. Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons (2000) “The cold truth is that the alternative to a…
Quote of the week: “In light of the certain prospect of retaliation there has been literally no chance at all that any sane political authority, in either the United States or the Soviet Union, would consciously choose to start a…
Note to readers: My recent essay, “Pakistan’s Choice,” met with mixed reviews, at best, from colleagues in Pakistan. I wrote about the growing distance between Pakistani security narratives and narratives that outsiders hold about Pakistan. Patching up relations won’t happen…
