The United States nuclear-weapons program, stockpiled with nuclear-warheads, need not concern itself with manufacturing them for a generation, if ever.
Pit of Pits: Los Alamos Proposed Plutonium Facility
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War & Peace
U.S. Legal Justifications for Nuclear Weapons Fall Flat on Their Face
The case that the United States makes for possession and potential use of nuclear weapons is legalistic to the extreme.
The West Judges Iran by Not One, But Two Double Standards
When it comes to nuclear weapons and assassinations, Iran is judged by a different standard from the West.
Putting a Country on a Leash: Iran and Uranium
If Iran agrees, on paper, to end uranium enrichment, it will no longer be inspected and could then secretly recreate its program.
An Alternative to War with Iran
Relations between Iran and the West, fraught with tension and conflict for decades, have in the past few months reached a fever pitch. There is talk of war on a daily basis from both sides. Hundreds of millions, if not billions, have been spent both to fuel the Iranian missile and nuclear program and the counter-measures taken by the West to frustrate it. Leaders on both sides have worked themselves into paroxysms of rage regarding the alleged homicidal intensions of the other side.
Cold Comfort for Egypt
What shape will the convergence of Egypt’s civilian and military management with the Muslim Brotherhood take?
Pollyanna of Peace?
Virtually everything we read in novels and newspapers, not to mention the video games we play and the Hollywood movies we watch, reminds us that we’re steeped in violence and that it’s only going to get worse.
Everything, that is, except Steven Pinker.
Is Disarmament to Proliferation as Spending Is to Austerity?
Disarming to prevent nuclear proliferation strikes some as counterintuitive as spending during an economic crisis instead of cutting spending.
The End of the Iraq War: the Proverbial Tree Falling in the Forest
The end of the Iraq War went largely unremarked upon by the American public.
In Signal to Israel and Iran, Obama Delays War Exercise
The exercise, called “Austere Challenge ’12” and originally scheduled for April, was to have been a simulation of a joint U.S.-Israeli effort to identify, track and intercept incoming missiles by integrating sophisticated U.S. radar systems with the Israeli Arrow, Patriot and Iron Dome anti-missile defence systems.