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Russian Chief of Staff: Risk of Nuclear War Increasing

Posted on January 4, 2012 by

Addressing the Public House not long ago, Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov announced that probability of a war near the Russian borders, including a nuclear war, had greatly increased over the last several years. Continue reading →

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More on Libya

Posted on March 22, 2011 by

Yesterday’s post noted that our military actions against Libya are likely to have the unintended consequence of accelerating nuclear proliferation. Nations, such as Iran, will see that after North Korea developed nuclear weapons it became largely immune to threats of regime change, while Gaddafi – who voluntarily gave up his nuclear program in 2003 – is highly vulnerable. My post argued that a lack of forethought was the underlying problem. Today’s news reinforces those concerns: Continue reading →

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The Georgian War Revisited

Posted on August 9, 2010 by

Two years ago, war between Georgia and Russia took the world by surprise. It also created the danger that, if President Bush had stood by his earlier promises to Georgia, the world could have stared at the nuclear abyss in a way it had not since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. We did not have to be surprised because there were numerous early warning signs that, if recognized and acted upon, could not only have been foreseen the war, but also prevented it. Unfortunately, a similar lack of foresight is keeping us from seeing similar early warning signs today. Continue reading →

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