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Oppenheimer’s Truth
Oppenheimer’s Truth by Winslow Myers 854 words After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Oppenheimer saw immediately that any nation with adequate resources would be eventually able to build a weapon, and that something as gargantuan as an H-bomb had no possible military function. It could only be a mechanism for genocide. As he tried to
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From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World by Lawrence S. Wittner 960 words This September is the 60th anniversary of U.S. and Soviet ratification of the world’s first significant nuclear arms control agreement, the Partial Test Ban Treaty. Thus, it’s an appropriate time to examine that treaty, as well as to consider what
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China’s Rise Hits a Wall
China’s Rise Hits a Wall by Mel Gurtov 977 words Over the last decade or so, the tendency among China watchers has been to see China’s rise as an endless upward progression. Just as happened during the Cold War when the Soviet Union was viewed as a colossus that in fact had feet of clay,