Tensions between the United States and Iran have increased as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected a diplomatic proposal from President Donald Trump. As part of the proposal, Trump called for uranium enrichment to be heavily minimized and only…
“With a nuke-nuke here and a nuke-nuke there, here a nuke, there a nuke, everywhere a nuke-nuke….” I know, I know — I shouldn’t use a nursery rhyme in commenting on something as serious as nuclear proliferation. After all, one…
Rarely has a politician so completely destroyed his career in so little time. In the space of about six hours, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared and then abandoned martial law. In a country with a long heritage of…
The nomination of Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright to serve as Donald Trump’s Secretary of Energy has been met, predictably, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the usual “green energy” suspects. The League of Conservation Voters vice president…
Before Netanyahu It was codenamed Operation Opera — Israel’s daring and successful air attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha. On June 7, 1981, fourteen Israeli fighter jets (F-16s and F-15As) plus other aircraft flew from Etzion airport more…
Joseph Nye, the intellectual champion of “soft power” and adviser to Democrat presidents reaching back to Jimmy Carter, is one of those liberals whom Lenin purportedly called “useful idiots”: intelligent, well-meaning intellectuals who always seem to give the benefit of…
Last week, the Justice Department released charges against Japanese criminal syndicate Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa, who was caught in a Drug Enforcement Administration sting attempting to sell weapons-grade plutonium to Iran. In the midst of the Gaza war, which has…
Reading the recent article in Foreign Affairs on “China’s misunderstood nuclear expansion” by M. Taylor Fravel of MIT, Henrik Stålhane Hiim of the Norwegian Defense University College, and Magnus Langset Trøan of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, I was…
The publicity campaign surrounding Oppenheimer strikes as more posthumous reputational rehabilitation than movie promotion. Last year, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm vacated the Atomic Energy Commission’s 1954 decision to revoke the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Given that the…
