Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on August 5, 2013. Article summary below; read the full text here. On July 12, the US State Department released a major annual report on arms control compliance that has riled up nuclear weapons hawks. In its annual “Report on Adherence to and Compliance With Arms Control, […]
DefenseOne OpEd: What Ash Carter Gets Wrong about Nuclear Weapons Spending
Published in DefenseOne on July 24, 2013 What Ash Carter Gets Wrong about Nuclear Weapons SpendingHistorically, cost has not played a decisive role in the United States’ nuclear weapons policy. For most of the nuclear age, money for the nuclear enterprise was viewed almost entirely in the abstract: $1 million was just a number and […]
Obama in Berlin: Empty aspiration or inspiration to action?
Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on June 18, 2013. Article link here. In his speech delivered on Wednesday at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, President Barack Obama reprised history and tried to evoke the solidarity that linked Germany and the United States during the Iron Curtain era. Coming almost exactly 50 years after President […]
What Obama should say on nuclear weapons
Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on June 18, 2013. Article summary below; read the full text here. One of the many rumors echoing around Washington, DC, is that President Barack Obama will soon deliver a speech outlining his second term nuclear policy priorities. While the exact date of the address is uncertain, […]
GITMO, Missile Defense, Nuclear Reductions & Message Amendments: Understanding the Implications of the NDAA
Isaacs stated, “The House and Senate Armed Services Committee pride themselves on passing a bill, which they have done for 51 straight years – they don’t want to be the committee that wrote the bill which was vetoed.”