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Wired
Nicholas Thompson |
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret.   |
Parameters
Summer 2005
Harry S. Laver |
Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment. |
National Defense
August 2013
Insinna & Parsons |
In a Post-Cold War World, Uncertainty Surrounds Nuclear Triad The world is a very different place than it was in the 1950s, when the United States needed thousands of nuclear warheads and three ways to deliver them on target to keep the Soviet Union at bay. |
Parameters
Summer 2008
Jeffrey Record |
Retiring Hitler and "Appeasement" from the National Security Debate History has proven that negotiating with terrorists and radicals won't work. |
American History
October 2003
Dinesh D'Souza |
President Ronald Reagan: Winning the Cold War With the invasion of Grenada, Cold War history began a dramatic turn that would lead to the demise of an empire. Ronald Reagan's clarity of vision and unwavering beliefs led to the dismantling of America's most formidable foe. |
Reason
February 2003
Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |
Parameters
Spring 2007
Louis Rene Beres |
Israel's Uncertain Strategic Future An assessment of current threats to Israel's survival along with recommendations for an end to its policy of nuclear ambiguity. |
Vietnam
Stephen B. Young |
LBJ's Disengagement Strategy Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's charge from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967 was to de-escalate the Vietnam conflict without losing the war. He did just that. |
Parameters
Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Mark Amidon |
Groupthink, Politics, and the Decision to Attempt the Son Tay Rescue With better intelligence, less compartmentalization, a more serious consideration of alternatives, and less groupthink, the Son Tay raid might have met with great success. |
National Defense
January 2006
Stew Magnuson |
B-52 Flies in Face of Critics The longest serving military aircraft in the world, the B-52 Stratofortress, often is praised for its storied history, but it also has become a symbol of the Pentagon's inertia in moving forward with the development of a new bomber. |
Reason
November 2003
Glenn Garvin |
The Gipper and the Hedgehog How an "amiable dunce" outsmarted the world -- a review of Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, by Peter Schweizer |
Parameters
Summer 2004
Justin Bernier |
The Death of Disarmament in Russia? Traditional arms control agreements with Russia, it seems, are as much a part of Cold War history as the Soviet Union itself. |
Wired
April 2002
Bruce Sterling |
Peace Is War Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes... |
Parameters
Summer 2005 |
Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc. |
National Defense
June 2006
Harold Kennedy |
U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home. |
Salon.com
September 1, 2000
Charles Taylor |
The traitor Forget the sketchy allegations of wife-beating. Anthony Summers' new book makes clear that Richard Nixon's real crimes were against his country. |
Parameters
Autumn 2007
Christopher Hemmer |
Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail? |
Parameters
Autumn 2004
Richard L. Russell |
Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf. |
Salon.com
July 3, 2001
Todd Gitlin |
Pushovers of the press The media elite are reviewing Henry Kissinger's latest tome, "Does America Need a Foreign Policy?", with their usual fawning gullibility. Best not to mention those bony hands reaching out from the grave. |
Scientific American
March 2007
Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Threats of War, Chances for Peace Preventing the spread of war will depend on strategies that recognize the shared interests of adversaries. |
Parameters
Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
Fast Company
January 2002
Charles Fishman |
Nonstop Flight America's B-52 bomber doesn't need a fresh start. It is a marvel of patience and persistence -- and it may fly for 40 years more. In a world gripped by recession and war, it may be a symbol of the future... |
Salon.com
January 18, 2000
David Rubien |
Seymour Hersh The man who broke the story of Vietnam's My Lai massacre is still the hardest-working muckraker in the journalism business. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: The Cold War To bring you up to speed, we present five things you didn't know about the only war that categorically could have ended all wars through total and complete annihilation -- the Cold War. |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is... |
Popular Mechanics
February 22, 2008
Adam Pitluk |
3 Things We Learned From the Accidental U.S. Nuke Flyby One might think that the United States' nuclear weapons would be treated with the utmost precision, but last year they mistakenly transported over the mainland. |
BusinessWeek
June 23, 2011
Christopher Buckley |
Book Review: On China by Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger sees China's future in its very ancient past. |
Wired
March 2002
Evan Ratliff |
This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late... |
World War II
Sherwood S. Cordier |
Red Star vs. the Rising Sun The undeclared conflict between the Soviet Union and imperial Japan at Khalkhin Gol cast a long shadow on subsequent events in the Pacific theater and on the Russian Front. |
Parameters
Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
Salon.com
May 18, 2001
Fred Branfman |
Wanted If Henry Kissinger isn't guilty of war crimes, no one is. A Vietnam War whistleblower on Christopher Hitchens' case against the former secretary of state... |
Salon.com
September 29, 2001
David Talbot |
Democracy held hostage We are fighting for freedom -- including the right to vigorously debate. But the war fever crowd wants us all to march in step... |
Salon.com
October 16, 2000
David Horowitz |
It's the character, stupid Voters don't trust Al Gore, especially when it comes to national security. And they're right... |
National Defense
March 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Air Force, Navy Take Steps to Restore Nuclear Forces' Reputations A November report on the state of the U.S. military's nuclear weapons delivery programs was the latest in a long list of indignities that have plagued the Air Force and Navy. |
Popular Mechanics
September 22, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
How the Air Force Is Solving Its 3 Biggest Problems The U.S. Air Force plans to face three challenges that threaten its future. |
BusinessWeek
May 30, 2005
Stan Crock |
Back To The Cold War? Rogue nations like Iran and North Korea are amassing a nuclear arsenal. What should Washington do? |
National Defense
August 2013
Insinna & Parsons |
United States Remains Concerned About Nuclear Weapons The number of nuclear weapons in circulation worldwide has been slowly but steadily declining in recent years because the United States and Russia are scaling back their nuclear arsenals. |
National Defense
October 2004
Eric Grons |
Feature Article After years out of the spotlight, electronic warfare is reemerging as a critical part of Air Force plans to maintain dominance of air and space. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
William Sweet |
Google Earth Pictures Open Windows on China's Nuclear Weaponry Here is an interview with the nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists who believes Google images shed light on China's deployment of its second-generation of nuclear weapons systems. |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Fiona Morgan |
Mutually assured dysfunction President Clinton's nuclear missile defense plan will spur a new arms race, a report by top intelligence agencies predicts. |
Salon.com
May 16, 2001
Fiona Morgan |
"A dangerous step backwards" Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back? |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Joyce Barnathan |
The Cowboy Who Roped In Russia Reagan repeatedly upped the ante -- and convinced Moscow he meant business. |
Parameters
Spring 2006
Paul Bracken |
Net Assessment: A Practical Guide Net assessment is one of the principal frameworks for analyzing the national security strategy of the United States. This article aims to demystify net assessment by examining its key features. |
Mother Jones
May/Jun 2002
Michael Scherer |
Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars... |
Salon.com
September 25, 2002
Robert Scheer |
The arrogance of the Bush Doctrine The president's new foreign policy will only anger other countries, and provoke them to take their own "preemptive action." |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Erin McCarthy |
Director Lucy Walker Takes on Nuclear Weapons in Countdown to Zero In Countdown to Zero, Walker aims to show the world that nuclear weapons are an even bigger threat now than they were in the Cold War. |
Popular Mechanics
September 3, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
U.S. and Russian Nukes Get Sophisticated as Numbers Dwindle Arms control efforts may become a casualty as the Russian invasion of Georgia deepens mistrust between the United States and Russia. |
National Defense
June 2009
Clark A. Murdock |
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: How Realistic Is Obama's Vision? Debating the realism of trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons is a pointless exercise. |
AskMen.com
November 12, 2003
Matthew Simpson |
Top 10: Memorable 20th Century Speeches Find out about some of the most famous 20th-century speeches that are still remembered and studied today. |
