Let’s not argue about this: the three greatest films about the Bomb are John Frankenheimer’s Seven Days in May, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe. All three were released in 1964, when movie-goers were still trying to forget the Cuban missile crisis. Previous posts have given kudos to Dr. Strangelove and Seven …
Libya’s Scud-B Force
by | 2011-08-22 | 34 Comments
Update | 11:53 pm Looks like three more Scuds now. I have, on occasion, thought about writing a little post about the disposition of Libya’s force of Scud-B missiles. The apparent collapse of the Qadhafi regime seems as auspicious an occasion as any. As his regime collapsed, Qadhafi’s forces fired a Scud-B missile at the …
Compliance Reports
by | 2011-08-18 | 1 Comment
Holy cow, the 2011 Compliance Report is out. Here I am, sitting in Idaho Falls with a glass of wine, reflecting on what a lovely nuclear waste dump this state would make, getting ready to hit the sack and then I see that. I don’t see anything earth shattering, but I perused the text very quickly. …
‘We should retain the option to test…’
by | 2011-08-18 | 39 Comments
At the end of my discussion of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty with Linton Brooks, he suggested that I interview someone who’s a “treaty skeptic”, who has doubts about the treaty and is able to explain them well. He referred me to Tom Scheber, who is Vice President of the National Institute for Public Policy. …
