European governments, which just some years ago sneered at Donald Trump for insisting that they penny up on their NATO defense spending obligations, are now advising their citizens to stock up on bottled water, canned food, and flashlight batteries, locate…
A recent essay in the Washington Post offers a stark reminder that the threat of state-sponsored biological terrorism remains an urgent and seriously underappreciated threat concern. This represents both a challenge and an opportunity for the incoming Trump national security…
The five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, described in news reports as “a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” The organization received the award for its “activism…
The Russians weren’t supposed to have atomic weapons. Not yet. Not in 1949. But there was no denying (President Harry S. Truman did try) that the seismic data the American military collected looked identical to the kind of seismic activity…
The publication of a new biography of Paul Nitze, who served in national security posts in Democrat and Republican administrations between 1940 and 1989, is a good moment to reflect on the need for knowledgeable, informed, and courageous experts to…
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) now warns that Iran has enough nuclear material to make several atomic bombs. Iran is the only non-nuclear weapon state to enrich uranium to near full weapons-grade levels, and it continues to deny inspectors…
The world right now is a tinderbox. In the Middle East, Hamas is putting up a fight against the mighty Israel Defense Forces that few would have expected just four months ago. Despite total dominance in the air and in…
Beijing has spent the last several decades pressuring and threatening Taiwan, the island roughly 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, so no one was surprised when, during his New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that Taiwan’s…
