Space may be the final frontier, but it’s also the cosmic dust that we’re made of. Our lineage traces back to seawater, as well. Is that why we humans stare out into space and the ocean? Two wordless and magnificent movie scenes book-end our connection to the cosmos. The first, as you probably figured, is …
Some Think Size Matters
by | 2013-11-04 | 36 Comments
A few weeks ago — ok, maybe longer — I commented on an interesting proposal (that I nevertheless disagree with) by Crispin Rovere and Kalman Robertson to prohibit low yield nuclear weapons. I agued (“Size Doesn’t Matter“) that I didn’t agree with the problem as framed, didn’t think the treaty could be verified and, in …
Conflicting Blueprints
by | 2013-11-04 | 8 Comments
Sometimes it helps to frame choices about familiar subjects in different ways. By way of prologue – and to dust off the arguments in my book, Better Safe than Sorry (2009) – here’s another way to think about future arms control choices: The global system created over many decades to prevent nuclear proliferation can be …
Home Sweet Home with AQ Khan 2/2
by | 2013-10-31 | 17 Comments
Yesterday, the two us — Jeffrey Lewis and Jende Huang — discussed AQ Khan’s residence in the upscale E-7 neighborhood of Islamabad, where he lived for many years including the period he was under house arrest. Today, we turn our attention to his lake-side villa. Khan’s lake-side villa played a central role in the unflattering …
