This space has periodically sung the praises of Bernard Brodie, but even All Stars occasionally go into slumps. Brodie was off his game in Escalation and the Nuclear Option (1966), in which he argued the case for tactical nuclear weapons. One cringe-inducing example: Imaginative use of special types of nuclear weapons much earlier in the …
Where Is Israel’s Red Line for Iran?
by | 2012-09-14 | 59 Comments
A friend and colleague who prefers to remain anonymous has asked me to post the following. For reasons you can probably guess, I haven’t had time to take a hard look at the numbers. By now everyone already knows about the spat between Israeli PM Netanyahu and the Obama administration over “red lines” for the …
Three Messages from GOV/2012/48
by | 2012-09-14 | 9 Comments
Not for the first time, the IAEA Board of Governors on Thursday afternoon passed a resolution on safeguards implementation in Iran which said a few things that its sponsors neglected to point out when they explained the results to the Vienna press corps minutes after the vote was taken behind the closed doors of the M Building at the …
KN-08 Markings
by | 2012-09-11 | 16 Comments
So, baby number 2 is due any day now. I don’t expect to be blogging much over the coming month. One of the great joys of working at the Monterey Institute is the tremendous number of talented students with amazing language skills. I have an article, written with one of our students named Hanah Rhee, …
