This post is authored by Shea Cotton The upcoming Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi has revived the prospect of formally ending the Korean War. Much of the ongoing conversation presents this possibility only in vague terms, or focuses on whether Trump should make some type of peace “declaration”. There has been a lot of discussion on this specific option …
War Drums on the Subcontinent (Again)
by | 2019-02-25 | 9 Comments
Quote of the week: “Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our society can remove this sickness from our land.” – Robert Kennedy, April 5, 1968 in Cleveland, one day after Martin Luther King’s assassination Imran Khan has …
The Demise of the INF and the Munich Security Conference
by | 2019-02-22 | No Comments
Judging from Twitter, the Munich Security Conference is talking about the demise of the INF Treaty. Jeffrey, back in California after his sojourn to Vermont and Aaron revisit INF pods of the past to focus on what really matters: Getting Taylor Swift to cover Nena’s 99 Luftballoons. Previous Podcast Episodes about this Topic: INF Basing …
The Nuclear First — and Second — Use Dilemma
by | 2019-02-18 | 1 Comment
Lyric of the week: No one likes us I don’t know why We may not be perfect But heaven knows we try But all around Even our old friends put us down Let’s drop the big one And see what happens — Randy Newman, “Political Science” We are rightly focused on the consequences of having …
