Terrorists, according to conventional thinking, are immune to deterrence. If they ever obtained nuclear weapons, they'd suffer few qualms about using them.
Russ Wellen | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
The field of nuclear weapons has long needed fresh perspectives. For decades there was deterrence, and then disarmament. Finally, there is a group with potential to break new ground.
Randall Amster | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The strategy of deterrence that drives both border enforcement and crackdowns on humanitarians is fundamentally flawed.
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle fraud claims regarding its marketing practices -- the largest criminal fine of any kind ever. But it's the shareholders, and not the corporate officers, who will be punished.
Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Rather than shaping a nuclear policy to prevent the 21st century threats of nuclear terrorism and new nuclear states, the Pentagon reviewers are defending Cold War architectures.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Only three countries in the world -- China, Iran and Saudi Arabia -- execute more prisoners than the U.S each year; a practice that costs the nation hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 01.11.2009 | World
President-elect Obama offering Israel the nuclear umbrella to implies that the Obama administration is on some level resigned to the possibility of a nuclear Iran.
Steven Crandell | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Nuclear weapons pose the ultimate test of presidential judgment. Once launched, these weapons change world history forever. More than 70 percent of ...
Brandon Friedman | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
Deterrence -- our ability to influence other state actors with unacceptable damage through our might -- is what truly made us a world power. But now it seems as though we've lost that ability.
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
While for many of us, nuclear weapons conjure up images of burning flesh, moral appeals are lost on the Pentagon. Its only concern is winning wars.
Russ Wellen | Posted 11.20.2009 | World