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	<title>Defusing the Nuclear Threat</title>
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		<title>Gen. Cartwright Rethinks Nuclear Arsenal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nuclear Risk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in today’s New York Times quotes a Marine Corps general who had responsibility for overseeing our entire nuclear arsenal as calling for deep cuts and fundamental rethinking of our nuclear posture: <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/gen-cartwright-rethinks-nuclear-arsenal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=1029&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former General and Ambassador Asks Insightful Questions</title>
		<link>https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/former-general-and-ambassador-asks-insightful-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 20:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was privileged to hear my friend and colleague, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, speak on the future of the American military at Stanford University’s annual Payne Lecture. Given that he is a retired three-star general and former ambassador to Kabul, what he said will probably surprise you. Stanford’s news service has a more complete write-up of his talk, but here are the key excerpts: <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/former-general-and-ambassador-asks-insightful-questions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=1024&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Loves NATO – in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/russia-loves-nato-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 04:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in Thursday’s Christian Science Monitor reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is urging NATO to keep troops in Afghanistan beyond the current 2014 withdrawal date in order to maintain some semblance of stability there. Even though Russia is very concerned about NATO expansion elsewhere, this Russian move makes good sense.  <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/russia-loves-nato-in-afghanistan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=1014&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Not to Negotiate With Iran</title>
		<link>https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/how-not-to-negotiate-with-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we want diplomacy to have a chance of avoiding a war over Iran’s nuclear program, we need to pay greater attention to what Paul Pillar, a 28-year veteran of the CIA and now at Georgetown University, is saying: <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/how-not-to-negotiate-with-iran/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=1007&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea’s Nuclear Deterrent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview, former Director of Los Alamos Siegfried Hecker made an important observation about North Korea’s nuclear weapons: “I do not believe that North Korea’s leadership has any plans to bomb the United States, its assets or allies. However, it wants to hold U.S. interests at risk of a nuclear attack to deter us from regime change and to create international leverage and diplomatic maneuvering room.” <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/north-koreas-nuclear-deterrent/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=1003&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Russia is Obstinate on Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has described Russia’s refusal to support a UN resolution on Syria as “despicable.” But, as usual, there’s another perspective.  <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/why-russia-is-obstinate-on-syria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=998&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s Not Repeat the Mistakes of October 1962</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cuban Missile Crisis surprised both Kennedy and Khrushchev because neither had adequately thought through how the other would respond to his actions. Each side saw its own moves as purely defensive, while the other side’s were perceived as offensive. The world cannot survive many crises of that magnitude, so it behooves us to better understand Russia’s current perspective. Yesterday, the Russian news service Interfax carried the following article with the headline, “USA, NATO Not Planning Attack But Still Pose Risk To Russia:” <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/lets-not-repeat-the-mistakes-of-october-1962/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=991&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rigged Russian Election?</title>
		<link>https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/rigged-russian-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given how our media have covered Russia’s March 4 presidential election, it is understandable that many Americans believe Vladimir Putin stole the presidency. The reality, however, is somewhat different. From all the reading I have done, it appears that there was some electoral fraud, but that Putin would have won by a significant margin in any event. Aside from being wrong, that disconnect between American perception and Russian reality creates a warrantless risk of a nuclear confrontation. <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/rigged-russian-election/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=983&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Risk of Humiliating Adversaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While many factors propelled the rise of Hitler and Nazism, humiliating Germany at the end of World War I played a major role. Hitler even forced the French to surrender in the same railway car –  in the exact same &#8230; <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/the-risk-of-humiliating-adversaries/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=974&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Nuclear Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In memory of the first anniversary of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear meltdown, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda acknowledged that his government had failed by believing in “a myth of safety” about nuclear power. Before an even worse tragedy befalls us, we need to recognize that society labors under a similarly dangerous myth regarding the safety afforded by nuclear weapons. Political and military leaders, routinely talk of maintaining a safe, secure nuclear arsenal, as if saying that makes it so.  <a href="https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/the-myth-of-nuclear-safety/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nuclearrisk.wordpress.com&#038;blog=13305877&#038;post=968&#038;subd=nuclearrisk&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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