20 Sep, 2017
The bully showed up at the wrong playground – Trump’s misguided address at the United Nations
““It was the wrong speech, at the wrong time, to the wrong audience,” Swedish foreign Minister Margot Wallström expressed about...
20 Sep, 2017
Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN
“Donald Trump denounced North Korea and its president Kim Jong-un as “depraved” before the United Nations Sept. 19, saying the...
19 Sep, 2017
A Negotiated Curbing of North Korea’s Nuclear Capabilities Is Good, But Not Good Enough
“The North Korean government’s progress toward developing a long-range nuclear weapons capability, accompanied by bellicose pronouncements, has been alarming enough…”...
18 Sep, 2017
Dealing with North Korean Missiles
“Small powers often have leverage well above their size and capabilities. North Korea is the example par excellence today: It...
17 Sep, 2017
World Citizenship Is More Popular Than You Might Think
“Has nationalism captured the hearts and minds of the world’s people? It certainly seems to have emerged as a powerful...
17 Sep, 2017
Help Wanted: Experienced Diplomats to Resolve Worst Nuclear Crisis in 55 Years, Rookie Presidents and Secretaries of State Need Not Apply
“With North Korea’s alarming escalation of its nuclear weapons and missile programs, humanity faces our most dire nuclear situation since...
13 Sep, 2017
Court convenes: Healing and justice meet
“The speaker is Colleen Sheehan, the presiding judge of the Restorative Justice Community Court, which opened last week in the...
13 Sep, 2017
“Top German politicians want US nuclear weapons out” — Did anti-nuclear actions propel issue into national elections?
“A series of anti-nuclear weapons actions between March and August at Air Base Büchel in Germany brought widespread media attention...
10 Sep, 2017
Common Sense and North Korea
“The phrase “common sense” implies practical and prudent good judgment, with a further implication that the obviousness of common sense...
9 Sep, 2017
Nuclear Weapons, Natural Disasters, Bullies and Your Doctor
“The world watches as the natural disasters of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and the earthquake off Mexico wreak their devastation,...
8 Sep, 2017
Democracy Insurance
“Here’s a basic rule of public policy: If a society wants a capability, it has to pay for it…” Hardy...
8 Sep, 2017
The Endangered Nuclear Deal with Iran
“Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, said the other day that Iran had violated the spirit of the...
6 Sep, 2017
Begging for war
““There are no good options,” Brian Williams said the other night on MSNBC, launching a discussion about North Korea with...
5 Sep, 2017
Sixth grade recess
“How close are we today to nuclear war between the United States and North Korea? As close as somebody in...
2 Sep, 2017
Echoes of Reagan: Another Nuclear Buildup
“Thirty years ago Americans endured an absurd expansion of the US nuclear-weapon force under President Reagan…” Mel Gurtov Published in:...