Livening up a Thursday fundraiser, President Joe Biden said, “Think about it. We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis. We’ve got a guy I know fairly well; his name is Vladimir Putin…….
Russian officials have announced a successful test of the Sarmat Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), which reportedly is an advanced version of the old Soviet SS-18 missile, capable of delivering up to 20 independently targeted nuclear warheads on targets. Those targets…
Since the onset of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were generally regarded as weapons of last resort. They were kept in reserve and their role was solely as a strategic deterrent. In the case of the superpowers, these weapons gave…
The Biden administration’s recent efforts to resurrect the 2015 Obama-era Iran nuclear deal have been met with bipartisan skepticism, as Republicans and Democrats alike have expressed their concerns. Lawmakers have highlighted that they have largely been left in the dark…
Adding a fourth nuclear power to NATO would go a long way toward restoring deterrence. Bent on reestablishing Russia’s empire, dictator Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. His ambitions don’t stop at its western border. Could NATO, particularly the U.S., U.K., and…
In 494 B.C., just as Biden was graduating from college, the region of Ionia was threatened by the Persians. They could not stand the fact that Ionia was populated by Greeks, and they hated the fact that they had a…
I am a child of my time, more or less a millennial, so I can’t stand it when I don’t immediately get what I want. When a website takes more than two-thousandths of a second to open, I close it….
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! — T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” What is a guarantee worth? In its most meaningful form, as a treaty or covenant, it is…
Anyone paying attention has seen satellite photos like this one of the Russian tanks, artillery, and trucks as well as 130,000 troops lined up neatly near Ukraine’s border to threaten an invasion. They would make an ideal target for a…
On January 11, 2022, Sante Fe, New Mexico, Archbishop John C. Wester issued a pastoral letter calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and held a press conference announcing the letter which is entitled “Living in the Light of Christ’s…