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 …
The Terse End to Cooperative Threat Reduction
by | 2015-02-17 | 1 Comment
Its cold in Moscow. On a chilly day in a hotel overlooking Red Square, Boston Globe reported “the Russians informed the Americans that they were refusing any more US help protecting their largest stockpiles of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium from being stolen or sold on the black market.” How bad is it? Well, things are …
