It’s time, once again, for our annual year-end contest. This time, let’s change it up a bit, as we’ve pretty well mined lyrics, old and new, written about the Bomb. This year’s contest will have two winners. One will be for the best one-line characterization, haiku or limerick regarding nuclear developments during the Obama presidency. …
Alternative Nuclear Futures
by | 2013-12-09 | 13 Comments
The two polar-opposite alternative nuclear futures are abolition and cascading nuclear proliferation. Strategic analysts who worry most about abolition see signs of it in treaties that permit four-digit nuclear arsenals. It takes only a single additional, one-digit nuclear stockpile to trigger worst-case projections of nuclear cascades. In between these poles lie two other alternative nuclear …
The Turkish (Nuclear) Model?
by | 2013-12-09 | 4 Comments
What follows is a piece by Aaron Stein, a research associate at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and a doctoral candidate at King’s College London. Aaron has agreed to be an Arms Control Wonk “pinch hitter” and contribute posts about nuclear-related issues in the Middle East. He blogs at Turkey Wonk. Follow him on …
Statistical Obama
by | 2013-12-08 | 18 Comments
Our President yesterday at the Brookings Institution shared the podium with Haim Saban, the founder of Power Rangers bringing my short 17 year old life full circle. (In a storage bin somewhere, I still have my hundreds of Power Rangers action figures, with their Megazords and all.) During the Q&A [link], the President stated: “If …
