: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable America needs a new nuclear weapon as much as Lady Gaga needs another new . outfit Rep . Ed Markey D-MA Monday , February 27, 2012 Largest Demonstration and Civil Resistance against U.S . Missile Test in almost 30 years by Jim Haber , Coordinator , Nevada Desert Experience The United States Air Force test-launched a first-strike , nuclear-capable Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM early in the morning on February 25 despite the largest anti-test demonstrations in almost 30 years . The launch took place in the dark fog of night at 2:46 a.m . from Vandenberg Air Force Base VAFB on the central California coast to the other end
[ by Charles Cameron -- request for info, Darfur, Janjaweed, Sufis, Senegal and more ] . . Dr John Esposito has a post up at HuffPo disputing Ayan Hirsi Ali‘s recent Newsweek piece, and one very small matter of phrasing raised a small cluster of questions for me … * My Questions: Dr Esposito quotes [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- more on the graphical mapping of heresy, radicalization, decision points, multiple ideas and complex issues, and some illustrations from railroad land ] . Here’s a railway track illustration of, say, the difference between true Islam (the straight track) and bida (the introduction of new ideas into the religion, deviation, heresy). [...]
Pierre Goldschmidt imagines a fictional conversation with a senior Iranian official that presents in lively way the arguments in his excellent talk, The Iranian Nuclear Issue: Achieving a Win-Win Diplomatic Solution. Click on the jump for the full text. February 22, 2012 Negotiating with Iran A hypothetical dialogue with a peace-loving nationalist Iranian decision maker [...]
Now hear this. If you haven’t already discovered Restricted Data, Alex Wellerstein’s steadily more remarkable blog on the history of (secrecy in) the nuclear age,* then you’re late to the party. Sorry — nothing terribly clever to say at the moment. I’ll resist the temptation to highlight one or two items, as it would take me all [...]Some genius created a pair of extraordinarily funny videos mocking the IAEA “super inspectors.” You may be muttering “But you think the IAEA is much maligned and Iran probably did have a nuclear weapons program! How can you find this funny?” Well, sometimes the line between laughter and tears isn’t so clear. I have to [...]
Before Ronald Reagan, there was Charles Evans Hughes. Both men were unorthodox thinkers, spotlight stealers and risk takers. Both were dismissive of the status quo, and sought deep cuts in strategic forces. Battleships were the strategic forces of the 1920s and 1930s, able to traverse long distances to project power and assert national interests. The [...]
There are signs that nuclear sanity is slowly gaining a foothold. Proposals are being considered by the Obama Administration that could pave the way for deep cuts in the number of U.S. nuclear weapons.I belong to the tribe that favors treaties that reduce the risk of war, add transparency and predictability to relations between well-armed competitors, and that depress impulses toward arms races. Not all treaties and treaty provisions succeed. Some have not only failed to accomplish these objectives, but have undercut them. What are the worst offenders? [...]
: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable America needs a new nuclear weapon as much as Lady Gaga needs another new . outfit Rep . Ed Markey D-MA Tuesday , February 7, 2012 Oppose the U.S . Government's Nuclear Missile Test Launch On February 24th , the first Friday of Lent , there will be global peace protests surrounding the U.S . government's scheduled launch one of the government's countless test launches of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM These ICBM's , which are scattered around the U.S . in their underground silos armed with nuclear warheads , are ready to launch on warning by the President's command . These missile test launches serve only to increase
During the second half of this week there will be a flurry of meetings in Washington on the subject of negotiating with Iran about its nuclear program. These will include this one hosted at the Stimson Center and held by the Arms Control Association, and a discussion at the University of Maryland with former Iranian negotiator Seyed Hossein Mousavian, now a [...]