UN Photo/J Carrier Note from Jeffrey: I’m still on blog sabbatical in baby-land. Here’s another anonymous guest post. Let’s be fair. It’s hard to simplify what’s not so simple. And it’s harder still to get your point across if few make the effort to understand. The Acme-brand bomb diagram brandished by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin …
Robert Jervis
by | 2012-09-28 | 3 Comments
Aspiring wonks: your homework assignment this week is to read Robert Jervis. In my view, his best writing is about the impact of nuclear weapons on world politics and the psychology of nuclear deterrence. As the salience of nuclear weapons has been reduced for the United States, the security dilemmas Jervis writes about have become …
Return of the Safeguards Resolution
by | 2012-09-27 | 1 Comment
Some of you know that I am a regular visitor in Vienna, and that I haven’t missed a General Conference since 2004. Most of you also know that I’m not a very diligent blogger anymore. Having said that, I thought it would be useful to give the ACW community my take on what’s been going …
Options On and Off the Table
by | 2012-09-23 | 38 Comments
All options are on the table. How many times have we heard this? The administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush directed such declarations to Saddam Hussein. North Korea is no stranger to this formulation. Then there’s Iran. Here’s what President Barack Obama had to say at the 2012 AIPAC Policy Conference …
