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Today’s Washington Post‘s describes “America on the installment plan”: Absent an agreement to fund the government until the end of the fiscal year in September, Congress has passed six short-term stopgap measures, one after another. The current one lasts until April 8. The short-term extensions have kept the lights on. But the uncertainty over [...] The United States and Russia have committed themselves to nuclear weapons cuts under the New START treaty, and both sides are considering their next move. A few recent articles make me think that some people in this country are getting a bit jumpy. The Washington Times reported: Russia sees the planned U.S. missile defense [...] I spent yesterday reading about the murder of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province in Pakistan, but I haven’t had time to blog about it until now. Taseer was a high-ranking member of the most powerful Pakistani political party and he was the governor of the political and cultural center of the country. [...] New START is thankfully done with. Does the ratification process offer any lessons for future arms control efforts? Below are some of my thoughts, mostly on tactics and messaging. All opinions are obviously my own. 1- Republicans don’t want a world without nuclear weapons – Obama made the decision to frame his arms control [...] One of the more frustrating arguments made against the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is that it doesn’t limit Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons arsenal. As I complained on Twitter earlier (@eauner), New START was never intended to address tactical nuclear weapons. Strategic nuclear weapons and tactical nuclear weapons have very different political [...] The Obama administration’s announcement that it will “support India’s full membership” in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) shows a troubling disregard for the long term health of the international institutions governing nonproliferation. The NSG was formed in 1975 in reaction to the 1974 Indian nuclear test. Its purpose is to set rules, which members [...] India successfully tested its domestic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) program yesterday. Ajai Shukla at Broadsword highlights a DRDO (the agency responsible for developing new military technologies) press release celebrating the test: “RUSTOM” the Medium altitude long endurance Unmanned Aircraft being developed by Aeronautical Development Establishment, a premier DRDO lab specializing in UAVs and flight [...] |
Blake Hounshell (aka praktike), our co-founder and main man, is managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He's now reporting on the Egyptian Revolution from Cairo. 
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