Its uniqueness and unreality render it useless as a justification for torture. Perfect for a movie, though.
Are nonproliferation and disarmament, once joined at the hip, headed for divorce?
Love and marriage, love and marriage, nonproliferation and disarmament go together like a horse and carriage. But have they become a house divided against itself?
Opposition to New START pits Republicans against traditional allies
In the rush to thwart President Obama, Republicans trample their own values. Republican foot-dragging on President Obama’s signature nuclear initiative places them at odds with the defense establishment.
The front line of disarmament: blocking a nuclear facility six times the cost of the Manhattan Project
The first step to disarmament is simply to impede expansion of nuclear facilities. The American public has no idea of the huge sums being thrown at the nuclear-weapons industry.
Republican go-to guy on nukes keeps Obama administration twisting in the wind on New START
Senator Jon Kyl continues to flip-flop on New START. Is New START “relatively benign,” as he called it, or ideologically unacceptable to you and other Republicans?
Republican Senate rejection of START could actually work in disarmament's favor
In a just world, the Obama administration could punish Republicans, were they to reject new START, by withholding promised funds for the nuclear weapons industry.
What if nuclear terrorism were just a mouse click away?
With 50 nukes knocked offline, inquiring minds want to know: can hacking be ruled out? Russ Wellen reports at the Foreign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points.
Would sweeping disarmament on our part impress Iran?
Conservatives believe that U.S. disarmament holds no water with Tehran and that substantive disarmament measures on the part of the West would have no bearing on any aspirations Iran may have to nuclear weapons. Russ Wellen reports.
No mean feat: justifying Israel's nukes without acknowledging them
Apparently it’s obvious to everyone but Israel and the United States that the Middle-East can’t take the first step to becoming a nuclear-weapons-free zone until Israel acknowledges its own program. Expecting Arab states to go along with the pretense that Israel has no nuclear weapons is a sick joke.
Give me liberty or give me — the extinction of the human race?
In a nuclear exchange, “give me liberty or give me death” means much more death than our founding fathers could have imagined. A state may win a nuclear war, but it loses its soul.
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