Now hear this. If you haven’t already discovered Restricted Data, Alex Wellerstein’s steadily more remarkable blog on the history of (secrecy in) the nuclear age,* then you’re late to the party. Sorry — nothing terribly clever to say at the moment. I’ll resist the temptation to highlight one or two items, as it would take me all …
Atoms For Peace, Baby
by | 2012-02-22 | 16 Comments
Some genius created a pair of extraordinarily funny videos mocking the IAEA “super inspectors.” You may be muttering “But you think the IAEA is much maligned and Iran probably did have a nuclear weapons program! How can you find this funny?” Well, sometimes the line between laughter and tears isn’t so clear.
Naval Treaties
by | 2012-02-20 | 11 Comments
Before Ronald Reagan, there was Charles Evans Hughes. Both men were unorthodox thinkers, spotlight stealers and risk takers. Both were dismissive of the status quo, and sought deep cuts in strategic forces. Battleships were the strategic forces of the 1920s and 1930s, able to traverse long distances to project power and assert national interests. The …
AP Story on “Steep” Nuclear Cuts
by | 2012-02-17 | 19 Comments
It’s time for the annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit featuring speeches by luminaries including Senator Jon Kyl and Representative Michael Turner, which means it is also time for a damaging (and false) leak about the Obama Administration’s nuclear policy! The Associated Press’s Robert Burns — what? Eli Lake was busy? — reports that “the Obama administration is …
