Poem of the week: “Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw little that is Good Steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is call’d Evil I saw hastening to merge itself And become lost and dead.” – Walt Whitman, “Roaming in Thought” Will this wretched virus help us to take more effective …
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something…Yellow?
by | 2020-04-10 | 1 Comment
This is a guest post from my colleague Margaret Croy. Dual Use in the DPRK: Uranium Extraction from Phosphate Fertilizer Factories Last June, while going through Google Earth and trying to geolocate some of the facilities linked to North Korea’s nuclear fuel cycle, I bumped into some of my old research on nuclear safeguards challenges …
Mort Halperin and the Okinawa Decision
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Mort Halperin a giant as an academic and a policy practitioner. And he’s working on a memoir that covers his sixty year career in foreign policy. Mort played an important role in the US decision to revert Okinawa to Japanese control without nuclear weapons — a case study Jeffrey teaches in is class on decision-making. …
The Most Consequential Step
by | 2020-04-03 | 3 Comments
Diversion of the week: I strongly recommend the movie “Heart and Souls” (1993) starring a very young Robert Downey, Jr., the great Alfre Woodard, the under-appreciated straight man, Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick and Tom Sizemore. We usually settle for one, movie-ending feel good moment. Guys: think of the having-a-catch-with-Dad scene in “Field of Dreams.” Gets …
