Trump just tweeted that: “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.” We, conversely, have more than 2,000 deployable nuclear weapons — aimed all over the world. What’s more, we have some 20,000 weaponized drones. In Pope Francis’s New Year’s Day … Continue reading
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Last Saturday President Trump said he was pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. His administration’s contention is that Russia is breaking the treaty by building and testing a new class of weapons. The treaty bans ground … Continue reading
Post election I have continued on with my ‘populist pursuits.’ Besides house painting, I continue to write freelance articles for our local newspaper. One article that I wrote in the last week was about an extra-ordinary senior at Bluffton University. … Continue reading
‘De-nuclearization,’ as this term has been coined by politicians and pundits, of North Korea, and the Korean Peninsula in general, has been in the news regularly of late. What hasn’t been in the news, and what was classified as “top … Continue reading
In trying to understand more about the U.S.’s history with China, I picked up the book: China’s America (The Chinese View of the United States 1900-2000) by Jing Li. The author notes that a consistent thread in our relationship is … Continue reading
Reading USA Today this morning, I came across articles noting that: Scott Pruitt is dismantling a lot of the EPA; some 73 million American jobs will be lost to automation by the year 2030; and that will only be a … Continue reading
I interviewed Ron Santoni this week. He has been a professor of philosophy for over 40 years at Denison University in Ohio. Professor Santoni, as he’s done for the past 10 years, was in Atlanta for Holy Week … Continue reading
With Trump’s new proposed Space Force, we stand at the brink of yet another Cold War arena. The book Beyond the Cold War notes that the U.S.’s military pre-eminence in the world is unmatched (the U.S. currently spends more on … Continue reading
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I’ve been doing research this week on the Unincorporated Territories, and former Unincorporated Territories, of the U.S. One of the former ones is the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. conducted 67 nuclear detonations. The … Continue reading
The New START Treaty has been ratified in the U.S. (still has to be ratified in Russia as well). The treaty will limit each country’s strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550, down from the current ceiling of 2,200. I’m … Continue reading