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Monthly Archives: February 2013
US Unwittingly Encouraging North Korea’s Nuclear Program
While encouraging nuclear proliferation is one of the last things we want to do, we couldn’t be doing a better job if we tried. Every time we engage in regime change, we give would-be proliferators one more reason to seek nuclear weapons of their own. What other way do they have of deterring our much more powerful military from toppling them at some future date? Continue reading
Risky Business, Part II
My last post highlighted a little-known nuclear risk during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, involving the mistaken belief of an American F-16 pilot that the Pentagon had been attacked by the Russians instead of terrorists. Nuclear risk also was enhanced on … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, martin hellman, nuclear risk, nuclear war, Richard Armitage, Richard Clarke, stanford, terrorism
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Risky Business
Even though the Cold War is supposed to have ended, the US and Russia still test each other’s air defenses. How much risk is there in such actions? More than one might think. Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, cold war, martin hellman, nuclear risk, nuclear war, russia, Russian bombers, stanford
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Russia Hit by 400 Kiloton Blast
A meteor hit Russia with a 300 to 500 kiloton blast yesterday morning, injuring at least 950 people. Since the blast was comparable to that of a strategic nuclear warhead, how much risk there is of a similar event being mistaken for a nuclear attack and igniting an accidental, but horrific war. Continue reading
A More Effective Approach to North Korea’s Nuclear Program
North Korea appears to have conducted its third nuclear test today, with a New York Times article stating, “a magnitude 3.9 magnitude earthquake and a magnitude 4.5 earthquake were detected in the North’s 2006 and 2009 nuclear tests. South Korean, U.S. and Japanese seismic monitoring agencies put the magnitude of Tuesday’s quake between 4.9 and 5.2.” Continue reading
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Tagged martin hellman, north korea, nuclear risk, nuclear test, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, siegfried hecker, stanford
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A Russian Lesson
RT (formerly Russia Today) has an article today which quotes Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as vowing that Russia will never again make the mistakes that sucked it into Afghanistan … Maybe we can learn something from the Russians? Continue reading
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Tagged afghanistan, martin hellman, nuclear risk, russia, Sergey Lavrov, stanford, war and peace
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Defusing the Nuclear Threat 