Nuclear deterrence’s inflated reputation is beginning to come back down to earth.
Ability of Nuclear Deterrence to Defuse Crises Exaggerated
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Russia
Nuclear Weapons Have Outlived Their Usefulness — if They Ever Had Any
Are the beliefs that nuclear weapons forced the Japanese to surrender and that deterrence keeps the peace little more than received wisdom?
How Our Obsession With Iran Increases Chances of Nuclear War With Russia
As it stands now, a toxic byproduct of our obsession with Iran’s nuclear program is the increased chance of nuclear war with Russia and China.
Magnitsky Act and Dima Yakovlev Bill Revive Cold War
If it weren’t for punitive acts by the United States, Russia wouldn’t have banned adoptions by Americans.
Magnitsky Act Backlash
The Magnitsky Act imposes asset freezes and visa bans on Russian officials suspected to be responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky, who accused the Russian IRS of tax fraud and later died in jail.
President Obama Stands Poised to Reward Assad’s Biggest Supporter
Russia throws good money after bad at the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Attacking the Nuclear Weapons-Industrial Complex on Both the Macro and Micro Levels
It’s sometimes lost on the arms control community that halting the spread of nuclear weapons begins at home.
Seminal New Book Shows Just How Little German Army Objected to Holocaust
The Wehrmacht only objected to the Third Reich’s policies of extermination when it looked like it might suffer the repercussions.
Working for Peace and Justice
In July 1990, on my way home from the meeting with our new friends in Moscow, I stopped off in London to do research for The Struggle Against the Bomb. Sitting in the Public Record Office and examining the newly-opened prime minister’s records, I was startled to discover a folder of documents showing that in the late 1950s cabinet-level government officials had launched a conspiracy to undermine Britain’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
The Real Metric for Syria Is Russia’s Realpolitik
A more accurate bellwether of the tide turning in Syria will be if Russia decides it no longer needs President Assad.