Russ Wellen is not exactly a rogue, as in cop or elephant. And, since he didn’t graduate from college, he’s more of an autodidact than a scholar. Come to think of it, though, that would make him a Rogue Scholar. (Usually, punning isn’t among his vices.)
Russ writes about:
1. Nuclear deproliferation.
2. Foreign relations with the Middle East.
3. Understanding what makes Americans tick.
He spends much of the rest of the time trying to figure out what makes his 12-year-old son tick.
"It's hard to tell people not to smoke when you have a cigarette dangling from your mouth."
-- Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Both U.S. members of Congress calling for new Iran sanctions and hard-liners in Iran assault President Rouhani from each side. In light of how much it has invested in uranium enrichment, it’s […]
Civilians are the innocent victims of U.S. use of an unproven product ― drones. In a moving testimony at the Guardian, Heather Linebaugh, a former drone analyst for the United States, writes: […]
It was only supposed to be Iran’s uranium enrichment progress that was frozen after talks with Iran last month. But now, acting in bad faith by violating the spirit of the Geneva […]
They alternately disdain and demand them. In a new report for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Usha Sahay and Kingston Reif cite President Obama’s June 19 speech in Berlin. The […]
A prominent psychiatrist and author unearthed yet another flaw in the principle of nuclear deterrence. I posted recently about a 1985 article in Political Psychology titled “Toward a Collective Psychopathology of the […]
Far from reassuring the public, open carry ― the right to carry unconcealed weapons ― just might scare Americans more than crime itself. As you’ve no doubt heard, the latest preoccupation of […]
One of these days the nuclear odds will no longer work in our favor. As I posted recently, nuclear-weapons advocates forget to factor human error into their national-security equation. Command and Control, […]
At Bloomberg, Tony Capaccio reports the new long-range bomber planned by the Air Force may cost 50 percent more than it had projected. The figure thrown around is $810 million for one, […]
Apparently Hitler seems to have forgotten that eliminating Jews would cause a crippling brain drain from Germany. There are many parallels between Hitler and Stalin. On the personal level, they both liked […]
We’re worried about the safety and security of everyone else’s nuclear weapons. What about ours? Robert Burns of the Associated Press has been the lead dog on stories about “rot” in the […]
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