Two months from now in New York, cabinet-level officials from 189 countries will read out national statements filled to the brim with resolve to combat the spread of nuclear arms, as they do every five years when the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is reviewed by its member states. The NPT imposes legally binding obligations on …
Missile Confusion: Turkey’s Dance with the Chinese
by | 2015-02-19 | No Comments
What follows is a post I originally wrote for my personal blog, Turkey Wonk. The article touches on a lot of the issues Jeffrey and I have talked about in recent podcasts, so I thought I would share it with the Arms Conrol Wonk crowd. Enjoy. *************************** I am confused. This morning, Anadolu Agency reported that Turkey’s …
Discriminate Deterrence
by | 2015-02-18 | 9 Comments
One paradox of nuclear deterrence has always been that whatever utility the Bomb provides is lost once the nuclear threshold is crossed, however large or small the boom. There is no bigger blunderbuss than a nuclear weapon atop a long-range missile. Smaller-yield message-senders have been created in the form of tactical nuclear weapons, but any …
Pornstar Reporting Fake As Her Orgasms
by | 2015-02-17 | 5 Comments
In 1958, the US Air Force lost a nuclear weapon off the coast of Georgia, near Tybee Island. The weapon is thought to be irretrievably lost, despite a brief glimmer of hope in 2004. So, I was pretty surprised to see a story claiming that a Canadian couple found it on a diving holiday. But …
