As President Obama looks beyond the water’s edge in search of achievement and for relief from Republican hyper-partisanship, he sees a barren and smoldering landscape, with problems from hell in Syria, Egypt and elsewhere, a Putinized Russia, and a China that is asserting territorial claims in troubling ways. What’s a President to do? While trying …
Plutonium Mountain
by | 2013-08-19 | 12 Comments
David Hoffman and Eben Harrell have published an amazing account (“Plutonium Mountain: Inside the 17-year mission to secure a dangerous legacy of Soviet nuclear testing“) of the three operations to secure orphaned plutonium at the Semipalatinsk test site — Operations Groundhog, Matchbox and Nomad. (I had known only of Groundhog.)
Isodarco Conference
by | 2013-08-19 | No Comments
I promise a FYRP soon! In the meantime, a public service announcement: Università di Padova – Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” – Università di Trento Carnegie Corporation of New York Centro di Ricerca Politica Internazionale e Risoluzione dei Conflitti (CERPIC – FBK – Trento) Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto – USPID-ONLUS, Sezione di Trento Forum Trentino per la Pace, Provincia Autonoma …
David C. Jones, 1921-2013
by | 2013-08-16 | 2 Comments
I noticed that General David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1978-1982, passed away at the age of 92. Richard Goldstein has written an obituary for Jones in New York Times that emphasizes the failure of Desert One under Jones, as well as his subsequent success in consolidating the power of the …
