Back in the day when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we used telephones with long cords and wrote personal letters. This dinosaur still abstains from Facebook, rarely texts, and doesn’t tweet. The transition from writing on a yellow legal pad to a six-lines-of-text training computer in the 1980s was a harrowing experience. My cell phone prompts …
Diplomacy 101
by | 2012-08-02 | 4 Comments
What are we to make of these two statements, one by Senator Jon Kyl and the other by Representative Michael Turner? A central tenet of the Obama Administration’s security policy is that, if the U.S. ‘leads by example’ we can ‘reassert our moral leadership’ and influence other nations to do things. It is the way …
My Own Sleuthing From Home
by | 2012-07-30 | 24 Comments
Sorry about the light posting last week, but I had a bit of an adventure. Let me tell you about it. One of my favorite articles of all time was published in 1993 in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Called “Sleuthing From Home,” Vipin Gupta and Phillip McNab detailed their effort at VERTIC to use …
The Next Civ-Nuke Deal?
by | 2012-07-28 | 9 Comments
If you liked the 2005 U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement, you’ll love providing U.S. technology or hardware to India for ballistic missile defenses. The deal between President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, affirmed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Indian Parliament in 2008, was characterized as a boon for U.S.-India relations and …
