Between House and Senate Republicans, and those gung-ho for defense and those for cost-cutting, Republicans are diverging on nuclear weapons.
Even Their Beloved Nukes Don’t Escape Republican Infatuation With Cost-Cutting
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Israel’s 1981 Osirak Attack Poor Precedent for Attacking Iran
Ineffective in halting Iraq’s nuclear-weapons program, Israel’s attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor can’t be used as a precedent for a military strike to halt Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program.
If We Survive the Next 100 Years, Which Came First: Nuclear Abolition or World Peace?
Is nuclear disarmament possible when the fundamental differences between states seem written in stone?
Can Lasting Disarmament Be Achieved Without Peace First?
If we wait for states to get along in order to guarantee disarmament, they might start a nuclear war first.
Israel and Iran: Partners in Plausible Nuclear Deniability
Those who oppose attacking Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities would better advance their cause by admitting Iran’s likely intention to at least field the capacity to, if not actually build, nuclear weapons.
Stockholm Institute Peels Back the Veneer of Nuclear Disarmament
Arms control organizations focus more on the limited success of New START than the vast amount of money spent to keep nuclear weapons going.
Can the Genie of Nuclear Knowledge Ever Be Put Back in the Bottle?
What good is disarmament if the knowledge of how to make nuclear weapons can’t be abolished?
Taking Drones to Their Logical Conclusion: Nuclearize Them!
A successor to the Stealth bomber is planned that would not only be capable of bearing nuclear weapons, but could fly pilotless.
It’s Not Just Pakistan Whose Nuclear Program Is in Danger of Infiltration
Like Pakistan, the United States may be in danger of the wrong person getting his — or her — hands on the nuclear “button.”
Disarm to Prevent Proliferation? Or Halt Proliferation to Enable Disarmament?
To progressives, keeping states from seeking to develop nuclear-weapons programs requires us to begin disarmament as a show of good faith. Conservatives claim to see no evidence of that working.