When I was in Canada in late October, I spoke with David Welch, Chair of Global Security at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), for his weekly podcast series on issues pertaining to global economy, environment and energy, global …
Know Before You Vote: A Pre-Election Day Reading List
Four debates and one Frankenstorm later, it’s the final countdown: Election Day is a day away. In less than 48 hours, we’ll (hopefully!) know who the next President will be. Throughout the campaign season, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has examined the candidates’ positions on various issues related to arms control and national security, and tried to make sense of what those positions might mean for a 2nd Obama term or a 1st Romney term.
“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 […]
Remarks at CIGI signature lecture on the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Last Thursday and Friday I was in Waterloo, Canada to help the Centre for International Governance Innovation’s (CIGI) Balsillie School of International Affairs mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I spoke on two panels: one was the C…
