Egads.North Korea, facing international sanction for this week’s nuclear test, threatened on Wednesday to attack the South after Seoul joined a U.S.-led initiative to check vessels suspected of carrying equipment for weapons of mass destruction.The threat came after South Korean media reported Pyongyang had restarted...
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Good Christ, the idiocy is flowing like wine this morning from the right. It's hardly surprising that right-wing bloggers can't tell the difference between the argument that a) North Korea.
The catchy title is intended to obscure the fact that I have nothing useful to say on North Korea's second nuclear test. Seems to have gone better than the first.
Much of interest here:Early in 2008, the Israeli government signaled that it might be preparing to take matters into its own hands. In a series of meetings, Israeli officials asked Washington for a new generation of powerful bunker-busters, far more capable of blowing up a...
This is such an interesting article;I don't know quite what to think of it. The president of Switzerland stepped to a podium in Bern last May and read a statement.
Dan Nexon has a good post about the frenzy of dealmaking that the Bush administration is pursuing in an effort to "lock in" policy preferences before the transition to a.
Chuckie Krauthammer comes not to praise nonproliferation, but to bury it:The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry.
So, Michael Dobbs at the Washington Post, in his capacity as debate fact-checker, made the argument that Barack Obama's claim that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty "fell apart" during the Bush.
Via Laura Rozen comes a very nice profile of Kenneth Waltz from the Boston Globe: Waltz is not a crank. He is not a member of an apocalyptic death cult. He is perhaps the leading living theorist of the foreign policy realists, a school that...