Bibi showed off Iran’s bomb. And its pretty crappy. The slide show added some titillating details to what the world already knew about Iran’s nuclear weapons program and, in doing so, made the case for why the JCPOA is so important. The real news was not the documents or their provenance, but what they revealed …
KCN-eh? April’s other North Korea Developments – Part 1
by | 2018-04-25 | No Comments
A Canadian reviews the last few weeks of North Korea news with a special guest. Andrea talks to Ramon Pacheco-Pardo from King’s College London about DPRK summit mania. They cover the recent high-level visits to Pyongyang, Beijing and Washington, consider North Korean pledges to refrain from certain nuclear and missile testing, and debate whether this …
Trump and Kim Upend Diplomatic Protocol
by | 2018-04-24 | 2 Comments
Quote of the week: “Americans, being a moral people, want their foreign policy to reflect the values we espouse as a nation. But Americans, being a practical people, also want their foreign policy to be effective.” ― George P. Shultz When the ice begins to thaw after an endless freeze, expect the unexpected. Donald Trump …
The Logic of Nuclear Superiority
by | 2018-04-18 | 11 Comments
Quotes of the week: “You show me a Secretary of Defense who’s planning not to prevail [in a nuclear war] and I’ll show you a Secretary of Defense who ought to be impeached.” — Caspar Weinberger, New York Times, August 24, 1982 “Strategic flexibility, unless wedded to a plausible theory of how to win a war …
