Lyric of the week: “Hey! Said my name is called Disturbance” – Rolling Stones, “Street Fighting Man” Strategic arms control has served us well. We have all been safer because of it. Starting from scratch with Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, negotiations initially produced a porous Interim Agreement in 1972. MIRVs multiplied the size of …
Hope
by | 2020-06-07 | 7 Comments
Quotes of the week: “These are the times that try men’s souls.” “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” “Whatever is my right as …
A Flock of Black Swans Comes Home to Roost
by | 2020-05-31 | 3 Comments
Lyric of the week: “I was a freedom rider When we thought the South had won Virginia in the spring of ’61 I sat down on the Greyhound that was bound for Mississippi My mother asked me if that ride was worth my life And when the shots rang out I never heard the sound …
Renewed Nuclear Testing in… the U.S.?
by | 2020-05-29 | No Comments
John Hudson and Paul Sonne at the Washington Post broke the story that Trump administration officials have discussed conducting additional nuclear tests in the United States. Jeffrey and Anne discuss why this is a bad idea, how this would disproportionately benefit U.S. nuclear competitors, and the primarily political (not technical) utility of a “rapid” nuclear …
