No section in my shoeboxes filled with 4×6 cards is fatter than the one devoted to nuclear deterrence. Lots of smart people have offered conflicting assertions on this topic. Everybody’s right, so far, since nuclear weapons haven’t been used in warfare since 1945. Conversely, as Eric Clapton has sagely noted, “Nobody’s right till somebody’s wrong.” …
The Many Dimensions of Parchin
by | 2013-02-01 | 44 Comments
Happy Friday, readers. My name is Tamara Patton, and thanks to the ever-generous Jeffrey, I’ll be a new guest contributor here. For those who’d like to know a little more about me and what I plan to offer, see the bottom of this post. For the rest who just want to hear something interesting about …
Ward Wilson Wednesdays Part 2
by | 2013-01-31 | 9 Comments
Well, it’s still Wednesday in California — for a few more minutes. Here is the second installment in the Ward Wilson Wednesdays series. This week, Ward looks at the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Setting Expectations for a DPRK Test
by | 2013-01-29 | 73 Comments
North Korea’s announcement of an impending nuclear test refers to a “a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action…” Most people seem to be focusing on the possibility of a device using highly enriched uranium — which is probably right but maybe not the whole …
