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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Let’s Not Repeat the Mistakes of October 1962
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:” Continue reading
Rigged Russian Election?
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. Continue reading
The Risk of Humiliating Adversaries
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged fareed zakaria, georgia, henry kissinger, humiliation, martin hellman, nuclear risk, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Patrick Buchanan, putin, stanford
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The Myth of Nuclear Safety
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. Continue reading
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Tagged deterrence, Hellman, martin hellman, nuclear deterrence, nuclear risk, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, stanford
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Defusing the Nuclear Threat 