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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it was the end of an era in international relations. Despite the hopes of many, the twenty years that followed did not produce a transition to a new international system. Rather the past two decades have been more of a pause, a time when the world dealt with
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Date:
9/13/2012
Global Zero -- an organization whose sole reason for existence, as its name clearly indicates, is to promote the elimination of all nuclear weapons -- has published a new report calling for deep reductions in the U.S. arsenal of strategic nuclear weapons. Despite the prestigious credentials of the
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Date:
5/16/2012
Possibly the hardest problem in homeland security is detecting the presence of radioactive material -- the essential component in a nuclear device -- hidden in a vehicle, train car, cargo container, ship or airplane. The problem is even more challenging if the material is shielded or hidden amidst
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Date:
3/6/2012
An election year is a bad time to propose dramatic new national security policies. The Obama Administration has just submitted a fiscal year 2013 federal budget to Congress that the White House Chief of Staff admits has no chance of passage even in the Democratically-controlled Senate. The Pentagon’s
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Date:
2/15/2012
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2/9/2012
The United States has a long history of being caught by surprise when other countries demonstrate their mastery of advanced military technologies, particularly nuclear weapons. The list of strategic surprises is remarkably long: the Soviet Union’s atomic bomb test in 1949, its launch of Sputnik
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Date:
7/1/2010
Following its success in negotiating a new START Treaty with Russia, the Obama Administration and the Global Zero posse are energized to move forward on their plan for the elimination all nuclear weapons. Those who think that it is a bad idea for the U.S. to pursue further deep reductions in strategic
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Date:
6/1/2010
Every businessman knows you cannot sell a product if your customer thinks you are willing to give it away. Businesses do make judicious use of “freebies” at times in order to get customers in the door, create awareness of products and even make a market by creating the perception in the public of
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5/12/2010
Two events this week underscore the Obama Administration’s schizophrenic thinking about the nuclear threat to the United States. The first was the signing of the new START treaty which re-established the centrality of the U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear relationship in global affairs. The second
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Date:
4/15/2010
Good news: the Obama Administration is seeking to ensure that the U.S. remains the world’s sole superpower. Contrary to the views expressed by critics on the right and left, the administration’s ostensible efforts to reduce nuclear weapons on the way to its announced vision of a world without them,
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Date:
4/8/2010