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By Cernig How dumb is it to court the breakdown of decades of nuclear arms treaties and meaningful warhead reductions between the US and Russia? Republican dumb. "Negotiations between us and Washington to make sure that after START I treaty expires in December 2009 we have some meaningful strategic

By Cernig The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has disagreed fundamentally with John McCain's saber-rattling against Russia and at the same time put himself in opposition to all of the civilian leadership of the Bush administration except perhaps his boss Bob Gates. "I believe we've got to have a relationship with Russia," Adm.

Tempting Seoul by Its Energy Dependence In the wake of the nuclear crime of the century - Mark Leon Goldberg points out why cutting India slack is especially egregious - New Delhi is starting to whisper the silver-tongued blandishments in the ears of the smaller fish.

Dutch intelligence sources say the US [or Israel] would decide within weeks to attack nuclear plants with unmanned aircraft to avoid endangering air crews. Dutch AIVD Secret Service ultra-secret operation underway in Iran in recent years has been halted and an agent recalled in view of “impending

From the New York Times: The United States and Poland reached a long-stalled deal on Thursday to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory, in the strongest reaction so far to Russia’s military operation in Georgia.

Water with trace amounts of radioactivity may have leaked for months from a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine as it traveled around the Pacific to ports in Guam, Japan and Hawaii, Navy officials told CNN on Friday. The leak was found on the USS Houston, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, after it went to Hawaii for routine maintenance last month, Navy officials said.

By Cernig The BBC reports that the UN looks set to approve the US/India nuclear agreement, under heavy American pressure, despite India having developed a nuclear weapon secretly outwith the NPT treatu. The deal would allow the U.S. to sell nuclear technology and India to sell nuclear fuel abroad.

Barack Obama’s speech to the throngs gathered at the Berlin Tiergarten Park was a solid effort, saying most of the right things about the Transatlantic relationship along with some unfortunate banalities. The allusions to our shared history with Western Europe in general and Germany in particular were well done.  The reminder of our efforts in the Berlin Airlift and helping rebuild a...

Top U.S. diplomat to meet with Iran's nuclear negotiator Tue, 07/15/2008 - 9:43pm This is an interesting new development: In a break with past Bush administration policy, a top U.S. diplomat will for the first time join colleagues from other world powers at a weekend meeting with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator...

Posted by Cernig Most people - especially experts on such matters like General Mullen and Bob Gates - think that an attack on Iran would be a disaster for both Iran and the West. Yet the hardliners on both sides seem almost determined to see war at any cost, having drunk way too much of their own kool-aid.