Dave Schmerler, Michael Duitsman, and I were gathered around my computer, admiring satellite images we found of an Indian missile on a launch pad from May 2017. I pointed to some cloudy streaks on the screen and joked, “I wonder if that’s smoke from a test gone wrong.” We zoomed out to see more of …
Trashing the INF Treaty
by | 2018-10-22 | 13 Comments
Quote of the week: “Wake the damn Bambino. I’ll drill him in the ass.” — Attributed to Pedro Martinez, 2004, the year when the Red Sox broke the curse of not winning a World Series after trading Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees 86 years earlier. Donald Trump announced at a campaign rally on …
A Future for Arms Control?
by | 2018-10-16 | No Comments
Aaron and Jeffrey return to the topic to discuss the potential for a New Start extension and what it could mean for the future of the US-Russian relationship. Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!
No First Use
by | 2018-10-15 | 6 Comments
Quotes of the week: “We are come to make a choice between the quick and the dead.” — Bernard Baruch before the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946. “To be quick in pulling the nuclear trigger is to be dead.” — MK Archival research by Michael Beschloss has revealed that in 1968, General …
