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Nuclear Negotiations A new way forward needed
Take steps toward limiting nukes now. Steven Andreasen's
July 19 commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle on a nuclear
weapons agenda for the Bush Administration is the latest in
a growing list of bids by senior statesmen to move the achievement
of a world free of nuclear weapons to the top of the security
agenda, 25 July 2007.
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Limitations
on the role of airpower in counter-insurgency. The widespread
use of airpower to compensate for lack of ground forces will
erode the support for foreign troops and the willingness of
the population to assist them, thus making an already difficult
task much harder, 23 May 2007.
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Deterrence in the Third Nuclear Age.
The persistence in a belief that retaliation with nuclear weapons
is a legitimate and appropriate response to current terrorist
threats assumes even less understanding of human psychology.
MAD just got Madder.
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An Atomic Threat made in America.
A wake-up call on the stalled quest to retrieve uranium around
the world. US policy on this critical national security issue
borders on schizophrenic, 13 February 2007.
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Cuckoos, Lame Ducks and White Elephants
at Riga now, on the eve of the latest NATO Summit in
Riga, many Heads of State have their tails between their legs.
Some have been weakened politically at home -- especially President
Bush and Prime Minister Blair -- and others have been caught
off-guard with the challenges posed by the Afghanistan mission,
27 November 2006.
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Double or Quits for Nato in Afghanistan?
The Financial Times editorial (September 5) is spot on about
the obligation we have to create stability and security for
the people of Afghanistan... The remedy does not consist of
doubling the NATO force or giving up, 15 September 2006.
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Plotting to mine uranium in Africa?
The Sunday Times' report on 'Iran's plot to mine uranium
in Africa' last week appears more intended to stoke up support
for muscular action in an already tense stand-off than to shed
light on the complex situation, 23 August 2006.
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The Government must make the case for
nuclear weapons - first, The Government must make the
case for nuclear weapons, listen to reasoned argument opposing
that justification and respond to it rationally and reasonably,
3 July 2006.
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Getting Serious About Missile Proliferation:
North Korea and Prompt Global Strike, North Korean preparations
for the launch of a long-range missile need to be kept in perspective,
23 June 2006
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Convenient Stand-off? The Russian
government has no intention of discussing its tactical nuclear
weapons stockpile with the United States, 21 June 2006.
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In Foreign Territory, 8 June
2006.
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Time to renew the 'special relationship'?
8 June 2006.
