Links – July 11, 2016
Top photo: A demonstrator protesting the shooting death of Alton Sterling is detained by Baton Rouge law enforcement. Jonathan Bachman, Reuters More about the woman, Ieshia Evans, here. Read More
ISIS
Links – March 3, 2016
Nuclear weapons didn’t disappear with the end of the Cold War, and, with Russia’s new aggressiveness, Elbridge Colby looks at the balance. As he points out, there are many reasons that Russia and the US should be talking again about that balance and how to make the world safer from nuclear war. Photo of Russian missiles on parade in 2015 from BBC. Read More
Links – December 10, 2015
This is the damage that Donald Trump is doing to the United States.
Photo from a tweet on #MuslimAmericanFaces. “Sister, political scientist, snorkeler, NY’er, traveler, recently converted @justinbieber fan.” Read More
Links — December 4, 2015
Something that critics of the Iran nuclear agreement and this week’s report on Iran’s nuclear weapons work leave out is all the sources of intelligence beyond the IAEA. This week’s IAEA report agrees pretty closely with the 2007 US intelligence estimate. Here’s a good summary of takeaways. And, David Sanger, “fuel compression test”? Really? I always thought that referred to gasoline properties… Read More
Paris Links – November 16, 2015
Some of the more helpful reading I’ve found on ISIS and related matters. Read More
Links – November 15, 2015
After the appalling attacks in Paris on Friday, we wish for recovery and healing.
Equally appalling are some of the responses, which I won’t quote here. The desire for more war, which is the generator of ISIS and other pathologies, seems insane to me. The image at top of the post is by Jean Jullien. Can we take its widespread adoption as an indication that most people want peace? Read More
Nuclear Diner 