[ by Charles Cameron -- minor stuff -- Anwar al-Awlaki an interfaith copycat? ] . No biggie. I ran across an al-Awlaki video today where the sheikh talks about the Mahdi, which as you may know is a topic of interest to me. So I was checking to see how much I’d written previously about [...]
I have no interest in signing up but the social media site Pinterest is the new Twitter. That is if Twitter was dominated by fans of Julia Child, Martha Stewart and Glamour magazine. Mrs. Zenpundit drew my attention to Pinterest as she is already addicted to “pinning”. Not much appeal there yet to the part [...]
: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable America needs a new nuclear weapon as much as Lady Gaga needs another new . outfit Rep . Ed Markey D-MA Tuesday , February 7, 2012 Oppose the U.S . Government's Nuclear Missile Test Launch On February 24th , the first Friday of Lent , there will be global peace protests surrounding the U.S . government's scheduled launch one of the government's countless test launches of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM These ICBM's , which are scattered around the U.S . in their underground silos armed with nuclear warheads , are ready to launch on warning by the President's command . These missile test launches serve only to increase
During the second half of this week there will be a flurry of meetings in Washington on the subject of negotiating with Iran about its nuclear program. These will include this one hosted at the Stimson Center and held by the Arms Control Association, and a discussion at the University of Maryland with former Iranian negotiator Seyed Hossein Mousavian, now a [...]
Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Conventional Prompt Strike â A New Name for the Same Old Bad Idea Matthew Fargo Feb 06, 2012 0 The concept of delivering a conventional warhead anywhere in the world within an hour has been discussed since the Bush administration Conventional prompt formally global strike may help reduce the role of nuclear weapons , acting as a substitute against some targets where existing conventional forces are incapable of attacking quickly but nuclear weapons are inappropriate . It is intended as a niche capability to be deployed only in extraordinary circumstances . Congress ended one such proposal designed to replace the nuclear warheads on Trident D5
Octavian Manea continues his excellent series at SWJ, interviewing the leading theorists, practitioners and critics of pop-centric COIN. This most recent interview is with Dr. John Nagl, formerly president of CNAS, author of Learning how to Eat Soup with a Knife and currently a professor at the Naval War College. Nagl has been, it hardly need be [...]
Not that I'm a bitter Green Bay fan or anything... My prediction, for what its worth: Patriots 30 - Giants 24. 
[ by Charles Cameron -- complex problems and a future with drones graphically depicted ] . . . . A couple of interesting, arresting and relevant signs here… The top one is a perennial favorite, and is far too simple to represent genuine complexity with any accuracy — but still gets something of the point [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- mapping, modeling -- no, scoring complexity ] . . . . I was interested to see David Bohm‘s On Dialogue (Pegasus Communications, 1990) listed in the bibliography of Nancy Roberts‘ paper, Wicked problems and Network Approaches to Resolution, which Mike Few quoted extensively in his recent post Failing into Collaboration? [...]
Did you know there is a Scud missile in the lobby of the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center. A colleague sent along this little video, noting that if you look closely, there it is at 0:13! (Apparently, they also use it as a rally point as in “meet by the Scud”.) I know that the United States acquires foreign military equipment, [...]
A fun time was had by all yesterday morning at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, DC, where I presented my research on AQ Khan and his fourth customer. (Well, perhaps there might have been a few stony faces out there.) George Perkovich moderated. I’m grateful for all of his compliments, starting with the invitation itself. [...]
The journal Asia Policy has published a “book review roundtable” with essays about Jonathan Pollack’s excellent book No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons and International Security, followed by a response essay from Pollack The Elder. I contributed one of the essays, as did Toby Dalton, Sue Terry, and Sung-Yoon Lee. Both Toby and I raised a similar [...]In a postscript of sorts to a recent debate in Australia over the supply of uranium to India, blogger and political scientist NAJ Taylor approvingly cites my recent article on the A.Q. Khan network and its fourth customer, and draws a rather strong conclusion: In a large part, Pollack has assembled evidence that makes public [...]