The buzzing topic of conversation throughout liberal America appears to be just how much change the new president brings to the table. His stalwart defenders rally to his side on comment threads, […]
The Deproliferator — CSI: Ground Zero
Deterrence 2.0 Graham Allison has been a pioneer in issuing clarion calls about nuclear terrorism. He’s been accused of alarmism, but Cassandras are supposed to err on the side of caution. Especially […]
Nota Bene #52
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Warren Strobel, McCatchy’s Nukes & Spooks, blogging from Tehran: . . . rumors are running rife in Tehran’s huge central bazaar that […]
Nota Bene #51
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) William Langewiesche, Vanity Fair, The Devil at 37,000 Feet, about a 2006 airplane collision over the Amazon jungle: [The pilots] were operating […]
Our man in Bananastan
By Jeff Huber Truth is truly stranger than fiction. Graham Greene’s 1958 spy novel Our Man in Havana told a tragicomic tale of false intelligence crafted to suit the needs of a […]
Georgia conflict obstructs deproliferation
“START I expires December 2009,” writes Alicia Godsberg at the FAS Strategic Securities Blog, “after which time there will be no nuclear arms control treaty that requires intrusive verification measures [or] the […]
Blockade, embargo? Them's fightin' words
Middle-East expert William Beeman reminds us that coming up this month in Congress: “Two essentially identical nonbinding resolutions call upon President Bush to ‘immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political and diplomatic […]
Autumn for the ayatollah?
Is Supreme Leader Khameini sabotaging his regime by throwing his support behind Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the upcoming presidential election? In “Ahmadinejad gets a crucial boost” on Asia Times Online, Golnaz Esfandiari writes […]
Nota Bene #38
Links of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): Interview with Middle-East expert Joshua Landis at Right Web: “For instance, we just had a Syrian delegation that came to Washington. … […]
Nota Bene #37
Links of the Week (as opposed to the weak link): In warning that Georgia could be a new World War I, John Zmirak at Inside Catholic writes: “With the distance of history, […]
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