As you can see, we have a spiffy new website, thanks to Greg at hexive and the Ploughshares Fund. (I also want to add a special note of thanks for Derek de Jong, aka Stratwonk, for many many hours of effort.) Although the visual changes are the most obvious — is the nuclear bomb effects …
Wonk 3.0
by | 2010-07-15 | 7 Comments
The Wonk Engine is getting some scheduled maintenance this weekend. Actually, we’re planning a switch to new content management tools, database migration, move to subdomain blogs, and redesign launch. Whoa! We’ll be offline Friday 16th through Sunday 18th. I’m sure lots of stuff will break. It’ll be horrific. Things will never be the same. It …
Limited Nuclear Options
by | 2010-07-14 | 11 Comments
The first impulse of states that acquire nuclear weapons is “simple” deterrence, and the simplest form of deterrence is massive retaliation to existential threats. (India and Pakistan, for example, now embrace declaratory policies of simple deterrence.) The second impulse, made possible by the growth of nuclear capabilities, is to avoid “all or nothing” decisions that …
Nat’l Security Strategy & Iran
by | 2010-07-13 | 14 Comments
Does the Obama Administration’s National Security Strategy signal a policy shift that in effect drops the condition that Iran suspend its enrichment related activities as a precondition for negotiations? Stephanie Cooke, Uranium Intelligence Weekly’s editor, thinks so: Speaking of Iran, few seem to have clocked the possible significance of an Iranian offer to suspend their …
