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. …
Gimme Shelter
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After North Korea tested its new MaRV twice, a bunch of weird news stories suddenly started breaking about U.S. responses. Flights were grounded in parts of the West Coast, there was a shelter in place order up at the missile defense site in Alaska, and it seemed like someone may have mistook the North Korean …
Ukraine and the Future of Arms Control
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Verse of the week: “I’d like to tell you not to worry. Reality has a way of sorting itself out,/ but panic is infectious. The scare arrives when you’re doing/ jumping jacks or organizing the cutlery. Some moment of low/ cosmological drama. Interrupted by the discovery of a lump.” – Tishani Doshi, “Mandala” What happened …
Contingency Planning
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Quote of the week: “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower The most fundamental norm – the one we depend upon to prevent massive and sudden crimes against humanity and nature — is the norm of No Use of nuclear weapons in warfare. …
