Nuclear taboo? We all know taboos are made to be broken.
Deterrence and disarmament: Are they both magical thinking?
Proponents of deterrence claim that should it fail and nuclear war break out, we’d still come out ahead of where we would be if deterrence hadn’t been our policy all these years. Today, though, most don’t want to hear naked calculations about the possible sacrifice of millions of lives to save hundreds of millions of lives.
Nota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro
Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. […]
Alienating aliens: Do nukes make them go ballistic?
For the sake of argument: Do extraterrestrials place constraints on our use of nukes?
Why Rush wants to own an NFL team
UPDATE: We’ve revised this post to replace disputed Rush comments with confirmed-by-video ones. After all, we want to be fair. And balanced. ________________ Rush Limbaugh wants to be an NFL owner. Or […]
Flirting with Dictatorship – On the road to South Africa's next president
Ronald Suresh Roberts, sycophantic biographer of Thabo Mbeki Jacob Zuma, some-time rapist, multi-million dollar arms-deal fraudster, populist, and permanently in search of his machine gun, declares that he is ready to “rule” […]
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