Nuclear Power Plants in Wars
In an article in the Economist magazine, Ukrainian history professor Serhii Plokhy argues that nuclear power reactors pose an unacceptable risk to soldiers and civilians if they are damaged and release…
Putin and Prolifeation
Foreign policy wonks are concerned that Putin’s war in Ukraine is undermining the nuclear non-proliferation regime, embodied primarily in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. The Economist magazine and the Bulletin of…
Davos
Fareed Zakaria writes in the Washington Post about the Davos Conference: Ukraine dominated Davos this year, and most people I spoke to were quite unsure how this war would end.…
Southern Baptist Convention Problems
David Brooks writes in the New York Times about the Southern Baptist Convention’s moral meltdown: According to an independently produced report released by the convention this week, those leaders covered…
The Stock Market and the Fed
The crash in price for Walmart and Target stock leads me to question the integrity of the stock market. The idea that two of the largest companies in the US…
Seven Lessons for Democrats
David Brooks’ April 28 column listed seven issues where the Democrats appear to be on the wrong side: Progressive Democrats have overstimulated the economy, producing the worst inflation in many…
New York Times on Tucker Carlson
The three-part hatchet job done on Tucker Carlson by the New York Times shows how worried they are about him. Carlson’s defense of Vladimir Putin and the January 6 attack…
Air Force Refocuses on Nuclear Weapons
In his April 28 Washington Post column, David Ignatius said: Beyond the carnage the Ukraine war has produced on the ground, it has forced military planners to think anew about…
Putin and the World Nuclear Order
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reports on its conversation with Siegfried Hecker, the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dr. Hecker said Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine created…
Get Middle East to Cut Oil Prices
Fareed Zakaria’s April 21 column in the Washington Post, “The only plausible path to keep the pressure on Russia,” calls on the US to get Saudi Arabia and other Middle…