Need a good reason to seek total nuclear disarmament? Here’s one: the systems set up to produce nuclear weapons and to guard them are incompetent. Case in point: U.S. scientists recently forgot how to make an H-Bomb. Seriously we just forgot. The Air Force accidentally flew some live nukes over the U.S. But here’s the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘nuclear weapons’
Dear Wikipedia: Please post this list of all our nuclear weapons labs. Love, The Government
Posted: June 2, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: keyboard cat, nuclear weapons
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Possible U.S.-Backed Military Coup in Pakistan?
Posted: May 4, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, nuclear weapons, Pakistan
A few weeks ago, Juan Cole wrote about the ludicrous nature of the hype about the threat posed by the Taliban to Pakistan: What I see is a Washington that is uncomfortable with anything like democracy and civilian rule in Pakistan; which seems not to realize that the Pakistani Taliban are a small, poorly armed [...]
Drop Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, Part 6: Pakistan
Posted: March 26, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, COIN, counterinsurgency, India, nuclear weapons, Obama, Pakistan, Pashtun
Carve this in stone: the first rule in Afghanistan should be, “Do no harm in Pakistan.” The second rule in Afghanistan should be, “If the solution to your problem is ‘fixing’ Pakistan, you’re screwed.” Earlier in this series, we dealt with counterinsurgency doctrine’s assumption of a self-contained battle space. We saw how U.S. attempts to [...]
A Bad Week for the U.S. Military
Posted: January 7, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: John Doe letters, military recruitment, nuclear weapons, Pentagon
For those considering a military career, two good reasons to think again: You might be a guinea pig for horrendous mad scientist-type experiments. If you die, your family may get a letter referring to you as “John Doe.” To top this all off, the Pentagon was slammed this week for poor security and oversight of [...]
I will rest easy tonight knowing my slumber is defended by hundreds of mass-murder devices in the hands of capable, well-referenced, moral and competent people. Or not. (Hat tip to Danger Room) The 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., failed its nuclear surety inspection after inspectors found problems with wing’s Maintenance Group [...]
James Carroll penned a great op-ed about a little-noticed document slipped into the president’s in-box as the financial meltdown distracted everyone: Last week’s financial metaphor was also last week’s all but ignored real problem, as America was encouraged to take a large step in the direction of the ultimate meltdown of nuclear war. Over the [...]
Endorsements
Posted: August 21, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Castle Bravo, Chris Haw, Jesus, McCain, nonviolence, nuclear weapons, Obama, presidential race, Shane Claiborne, voting
After surveying the very large sample of quotes on nonresistance and war, David Bercot writes in A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs that (I’m paraphrasing) the early Christians were opposed to war and that they allowed members of the military to join and remain in the church only if they refused to kill. Bercot wrote [...]
Calm Down
Posted: August 16, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Gandhi and Jesus, Georgia, McCain, missile defense, nonviolence, nuclear weapons, Russia, soteriology, Terrance J. Rynne, United States
I feel like I woke up this morning in a time warp: Moscow — Russia warned Poland on Friday that it is exposing itself to attack — even a nuclear one — by accepting a U.S. missile interceptor base on its soil, delivering Moscow’s strongest language yet against the plan. American and Polish officials stuck [...]
Nagasaki
Posted: August 10, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: just war, Nagasaki, nonviolence, nuclear weapons
Yesterday was the anniversary of the second A-bomb attack by the United States against Japan at the close of World War II. You might have heard a great deal about whether or not the bombs were justified. I am not a subscriber to just war theory, but for those who are, I’d offer the following [...]
