Former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry owns nuclear issues this week. The Congressionally-empaneled Strategic Posture Commission, which he chaired, has released it’s final report as has the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, which Perry co-chaired with Brent Scowcroft. We will, no doubt, scour both reports with glee for inconsistencies. …
The Lulling Effect of Arms Control
by | 2009-05-04 | 9 Comments
Off to New York City for a couple of meetings around the PREPCOM. Drop me a line if you are around. In the meantime, here is aother entry from Michael Krepon’s shoebox on an argument that was later reprised to disastrous consequences: Richard Perle on the lulling effect of arms control: “Democracies will not sacrifice …
North Korea and Game Theory
by | 2009-05-04 | 11 Comments
I had an op ed on Sunday in the Washington Times about what to do about North Korea: Although deeply injurious to U.S. interests, nothing that Kim Jong-il has done is irrational, crazy or, that old orientalist favorite, inscrutable. The North Koreans have repeatedly stated that they would abandon their nuclear weapons for a normal …
Pandemic: What Price Knowledge?
by | 2009-05-02 | 3 Comments
click on the image for a larger version The Mother of All Influenza Viruses. This graph indicates that all the H1N1 viruses that circulated since 1918 were mutations of the Spanish Flu. (From Taubenberger and Reid, Influenza, ed. C. W. Potter, p. 118.) Nothing says dual-use like biology. And, seemingly, nothing worries some policymakers more …
