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 …
Is Arms Control Dead (Again)?
by | 2013-01-27 | 16 Comments
David Hoffman tapped a thoughtful piece, “Is Nuclear Arms Control Dead?” that appears on Foreign Policy’s website. Nuclear arms control has been declared dead on many occasions, including when the Soviet Union broke a nearly three-year-long moratorium on atmospheric tests in 1961, when it invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and when the Arms Control and Disarmament …
