I am fascinated by this curious “intelligence issue” that Senator Risch cited in an unsuccessful effort to delay the Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on the resolution of ratification for the New START Treaty. It seems, according to a pair of stories by Josh Rogin (Risch Tries to Halt Vote on New START Over Undisclosed …
The Unipolar Moment
by | 2010-09-21 | 14 Comments
Charles Krauthammer is a rapier-witted columnist who reminds me of Joseph Alsop, who skewered liberals, détentists, and anti-Vietnam War activists in Washington Post op-eds during the Cold War. Alsop used his Georgetown salon to extend his influence; Krauthammer’s salon is Fox News. Krauthammer’s most memorable essay may have appeared in the Winter 1990/1991 issue of …
Kim Jong Il and the Grim Reaper
by | 2010-09-15 | 13 Comments
When Jimmy Carter was last in Pyongyang, according to KCNA, he was reminded that “it is the behest of President Kim Il Sung to denuclearize the peninsula.” How wholeheartedly NDC Chairman Kim Jong Il shares that wish is another question. In the judgment of Richard Bush of the Brookings Institution, not so much: “The best …
Why ICBMs are Hard to Build
by | 2010-09-14 | 41 Comments
UCS’s David Wright has written a nice post at All Things Nuclear that replots a graph originally produced by IISS to explain that ICBMs are hard to build because the principal trick to increasing range is adding fuel:
