Celebrate the 2013 Inauguration Thank you for your interest in sponsoring the Council’s 2013 Inauguration Celebration honoring the second inauguration of President Barack Obama and the newly-elected members of the 113th Congress. Sunday, January 20, 2013 5:00 – 7:00 PM Phoenix Park Hotel – Ballroom, First Floor 520 North Capitol Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 […]
The Triad Is Not The Trinity: A Response To Gen. Chambers
by Kingston Reif Published in AOL Defense on November 16, 2012. Article summary below; read the full text online. In a November 1 article for AOL Defense, the Air Force’s General Chambers overstates the peace-promoting virtues of nuclear weapons. In addition, he exaggerates the benefits of the nuclear triad and downplays the significant financial resources […]
“Want to Hear Something Really Scary? Zombies Are Real” Or at Least Could Be
Originally published in OpEdNews October 31, 2012. In September, just a few weeks before Halloween, Paul W. S. Anderson released the fifth installment of the Resident Evil story. The film finds the heroine, Alice, needing to escape from the Umbrella Corporation, an evil pharmaceutical company plotting world domination. Eventually, the story ends with Alice and […]
A Nuclear Nightmare
by Kingston Reif Originally published in The Hill’s Congress blog on October 31, 2012. Halloween is a time for scary tales and horror movies. It is appropriate, then, that this Halloween falls just after the 50th anniversary of one of the most terrifying real-life horror stories of all time: The Cuban Missile Crisis. The crisis […]
Kingston Reif speaks at CIGI signature lecture on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis
On October 25 and 26, Center Director of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Kingston Reif participated in a conference on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis at the Centre for International Governance Innovation’s (CIGI) Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. Below is the video of Reif’s remarks at the October 25 CIGIsignature lecture “Empathy […]
