The first “revelation” from the Wikileaks cache is something we already knew — that there are US nuclear weapons stored in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Turkey — at least, as of November 2009.
Wikileaks and “CableGate”
by | 2010-11-29 | 30 Comments
I know a lot of you with .gov and .mil addresses have been warned to stay far, far away from the Wikileaks material. I am going to spend a lot of time over the next few weeks going through the cables carefully, pulling out the things that I think are most interesting. So, even if …
Korea: Instability Within Stability
by | 2010-11-28 | 29 Comments
As Michael has recently reminded us, the possession of nuclear weapons by two adversaries may lessen the chances of all-out war, but it does not prevent — and may even encourage — more limited forms of conflict. Western strategists have held this view since at least the 1950s, and lately have used it to explain …
Transcendental Meditation & the NPT
by | 2010-11-26 | 5 Comments
Lost amidst President Obama’s announcement that the US would support permanent membership on the UN Security Council for India, was this little nugget in the India-US Joint Statement calling for a nuclear dialogue among nuclear weapons states: They affirmed the need for a meaningful dialogue among all states possessing nuclear weapons to build trust and …
