Is the cause of disarmament helped if the pro-life movement hitches its wagon to it?
Using Pro-Life to Sell Nuclear Disarmament
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The Not-So-Great Game
The current Great Game centers on Iran and the efforts particularly of the United States and Israel to prevent the country from going nuclear. The 19th-century battle over turf and influence in Central Asia lasted decades and sent armies slogging their way across high mountains and unforgiving plains. The current standoff, by contrast, could escalate in a matter of hours, if Israel launches a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities and Iran retaliates directly or through proxies.
Dear Secretary Panetta: U.S. Taxpayers Have Better Things to Do With Their Money Than Fund Nukes in Europe
The Project for Government Oversight appeals to Secretary of Defense Panetta to cease deploying U.S. nuclear weapons to Europe.
Is Libya a “False Analogy” (in Hillary Clinton’s Words) to Syria?
The United States, Europe, and Saudi Arabia seek regime change in Syria, but Russia does not want to see another country wrested from its orbit.
Pit of Pits: Los Alamos Proposed Plutonium Facility
The United States nuclear-weapons program, stockpiled with nuclear-warheads, need not concern itself with manufacturing them for a generation, if ever.
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.
START Stopper
Standing the New START treaty on its head.
Nuclear Weapons Make Rulers of States That Possess Them Hitlers Waiting to Happen
Nations still use Nazi Germany’s nascent nuclear-weapons program as a justification for developing or retaining nuclear weapons. Russ Wellen at the Foreign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points.
Lost in Transition? Nork’s Nuclear Command and Control
It’s not exactly clear who, with Kim Jong-il’s death, exerts command and control over North Korea’s nuclear weapons.
The Year’s End Brings Real Disarmament That You Can Touch and Feel
It may not be much consolation to most Americans, but cuts to our nuclear-weapons program are a silver lining to our economic crisis.