Note to readers: For those who want to dive deeper into this history, check out my magnum opus/door stop, Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control. Quote of the week: “Arms control is an unnatural act.” — Paul Warnke “People are trapped in history and history is trapped …
Networked Nonproliferation with Michal Onderco
by | 2022-02-08 | No Comments
Dr. Michal Onderco, Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Public Administration and Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam, joins Jeffrey to talk about his new book, Networked Nonproliferation: Making the NPT Permanent. Dr. Onderco and Jeffrey talk about the history of the NPT extension, interpersonal relationships in diplomacy, and the methods and study …
Time For Another Big Re-Think
by | 2022-02-07 | 7 Comments
Quotes of the week: “I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.” — John le Carre “Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?” — John Barrymore Arms control was conceived by a clutch of brilliant white men who mostly lived in and around Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their timing …
The First Debate Over Downwinders
by | 2022-01-31 | No Comments
Verse of the week: “Waves of anger and fearCirculate over the brightAnd darkened lands of the earth” – W.H. Auden, “Another Time” A total of 528 nuclear tests were carried out in the atmosphere. The United States conducted 215; the Soviet Union conducted even more. France tested fifty times in the atmosphere over colonial possessions. …
