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 […]
Nuclear Weapons: It Is Important to Continue Drawing Down
Note: A version of this op-ed was published in the Fall 2012 – ELECTION EDITION of VETERANS’ VISION (www.theveteransvision.com.) There are many serious anxieties in today’s world: a war in Afghanistan that has drifted into its second decade, a serious debt crisis facing the United States and many other countries, climate change, the threat of […]
Cold comfort
Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online on August 27, 2012 Article summary below; read the full text online. As the plausible military rationales for nuclear weapons continue to deteriorate in the aftermath of the Cold War, political and psychological rationales for nuclear weapons — like providing reassurance to US allies — are increasingly […]
