The military cemetery at Nuttuno, thirty miles south of Rome, is serene and immaculately kept. Almost as many GIs are buried there – 7,861 – as at Normandy, painful testimony of how botched the Italian campaign was. I’m named after one of the soldiers buried there, my Uncle Mickey, who died at Anzio. Gar Alperovitz …
Iran’s New Missile
by | 2010-08-23 | 31 Comments
It was easy to overlook amid the discussion of the Bushehr reactor starting up, but Iran’s military, always busy, announced a new ballistic missile test last week. According to Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, the new Qiam-1 liquid-fueled ballistic missile marks an advance in countermeasures against ballistic missile defenses.
Toward Smaller Nuclear Forces
by | 2010-08-22 | 9 Comments
There’s a serious new study by a group of authors in the United States and Russia being published in the coming days that calls for deeper cuts in nuclear weapons—well beyond those envisioned in the New Start treaty pending before the Senate. The new study is based on extensive computer modeling of a nuclear war, …
The Ayatollah Shuts the Door, Again
by | 2010-08-21 | 21 Comments
It’s been a busy week or so on the Iran front. Just getting caught up may take a little while. Let’s start with the diplomacy. Technology will be tackled in a follow-up post. Starting in late June, there were some hints and suggestions from Tehran that they’d like to re-open negotiations with the West on …
