Michael Katz Hyman sends along this brilliantly funny manual, NSRB DOC. 130 Survival Under Atomic Attack (1950). Remember kids, “Beyond 2 miles, the explosion will cause practically no deaths at all.” The atomic age inspired all sorts of “you can survive” silliness, including this story from Friend of Wonk Stephen Schwartz: My favorite story concerns …
Mahley On Libya
by | 2006-06-13 | 3 Comments
A couple of weeks ago, Judy Miller made a passing reference to “a ‘Lessons Learned’ paper for an arms-control newsletter” written by Ambassador Donald Mahley, Senior WMD Representative in Libya. I was like, what Lessons Learned paper? So was Kerr. Turns out, Mahley penned an article for The Arena, a publication of the now defunct …
Bombs From Space
by | 2006-06-12 | 8 Comments
Christopher Stone, “a space/missile officer with Air Force Space Command-Reserve Component”, has written an article in the Space Review blaming “certain circles” and “political” reasons for the lack of orbital strike weapons. Stone omitted, as a reason, the laws of physics, which presumably also hate our freedoms. Fortunately, David Wright and Laura Grego have penned …
Blix on India
by | 2006-06-12 | No Comments
Hans Blix came out against the US-India nuclear deal, kind of—according to a press release from Ed Markey’s (D-MA) office: “I am concerned about the impact on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. These concerns could be met if India, Pakistan, the United States, and other states committed themselves to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and …
