So, I go to meetings on “deterring Iran” all the time where someone says “I think Thomas Schelling would say …” The funny thing is, Tom is still around. And he has actual opinions on the issue. One needn’t perform exegesis on Strategy and Conflict or try to extrapolate from Arms and Influence. You can …
Gardening and Arms Control
by | 2010-04-15 | 4 Comments
I contend, as readers of these posts know, that being a Red Sox fan is helpful training for the profession of arms control. So, too, is gardening. At the ripe old age of 68, Thomas Jefferson wrote, I have often thought that if heaven had given me a choice of my position and calling, it …
Missile Defense and the Prague Treaty
by | 2010-04-14 | 22 Comments
Does the Prague Treaty (aka New START) limit missile defenses? Certainly the text mentions defenses, but does it limit them? “Limit” is a very particular word — The definitions in OED suggest usage most often involves those things that we can measure: time, acreage, troops, eggs, and whatnot. That usage holds true, too, in the …
Grading the NPR: Transparency
by | 2010-04-13 | 14 Comments
As I have already argued, I believe the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review is a significant achievement — in a way that critics and some surprising advocates don’t quite grasp yet. Because everyone is focusing on the details — this caveat, that compromise — the broader shift in how we talk about the role of nuclear …
