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Hyperventilating Over President Obama’s Nuke Policies

Also published here. Today, in Prague, Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitri Medvedev signed a New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START. I’ve written quite a bit about New START; in one of my posts, I described it as a “maintenance agreement”. It’s a big deal that they’re signing it, but it’s also routine. It [...]
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The 2010 Nuclear Posture Review: Looking Forward

Also published here. Today, after many months of interagency talks and international consultation, the Obama administration announced that the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review is finally complete. You can download it by clicking the image above. What is the Nuclear Posture Review, or NPR? As the Department of Defense describes it: The Nuclear Posture Review is [...]
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Winning the Nuclear PR War

Also published here. It was in 1983, one of the most tense years of the Cold War, when the Reagan administration was deploying Pershing II missiles in Europe, and the arms race with the Soviet Union was at a fevered pitch, that a young man at Columbia University wrote a rather interesting article discussing the [...]
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