Lyric of the week: “You can throw me in the Colbert County jailhouse You can throw me off the Wilson Dam But there ain’t much difference in the man I wanna be And the man that I really am. Listen to me… We ain’t never gonna change We ain’t doin’ nothin’ wrong” — the astounding …
Arms Control Implications of the War in Ukraine (I)
by | 2022-04-05 | No Comments
Quote of the week: “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” ― Confucius Let’s start with the good news. We’re not out of the woods yet, but the war in Ukraine, like those preceding it, is again demonstrating that nuclear weapons are not useful in warfare. If Vladimir Putin authorizes a …
Iran in Geo
by | 2022-04-04 | No Comments
Over the past two years, we’ve had a project at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies to look at Iran’s space programs. For the past year or so, my partner-in-crime has been Jim Lamson. Now Jim, and John Krzyzaniak from IISS, have written a very readable summary of Iran’s space efforts. To Geostationary Orbit …
Atomic Steppe
by | 2022-03-28 | 2 Comments
Verse of the week: “Restrained pulse of moaning steppe — With waves of pain and grief. The drops of rain? Crushing seas? Those are mothers’ trembling tears. Here’s a place of whispering spell — Abai. Earth’s bleeding chest. Death’s stealing lives — time multiplies. Submission never justifies.” — Alimzhan Akmetov [Abai is a revered Kazakh …
