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 […]
Romney strikes out on nukes
by Kingston Reif Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on October 22, 2012. Article summary below; read the full text here. Where does the Republican nominee, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, stand on the issues of nuclear threat reduction, including arms control treaties, non-proliferation, and missile defense? Apart from a major speech at […]
Prague, Revisited
Written by: Kingston Reif Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on September 17, 2012 Article summary below; read the full text online. Few national security issues are as important to President Barack Obama as reducing the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Obama devoted his first major foreign policy speech as president to the […]