2 Sep, 2024
The Great Crossing: From Competition to “Coöperatism”
The Great Crossing: From Competition to “Coöperatism” by Winslow Myers 820 words A generation ago South Africa looked into twin...
2 Sep, 2024
10 Aug, 2024
What Is a Crime?
What Is a Crime? by Winslow Myers 714 words As another anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki passes and the survivors...
22 Jul, 2022
Deterrencelessness: Nuclear threats neither credible nor viable
Threatening to make attacks with nuclear weapons is known as “deterrence” when the United States does it, but it’s called madness, blackmail, or “terrorism” if Russia, China, or North Korea does.
20 Apr, 2022
With humanity on the brink, should we trust deterrence theory, or disarmament?
On Monday, the Pentagon announced the US will soon begin training the Ukrainian military in using howitzer artillery in an unnamed country. Presumably this will be in a NATO member state. If Russian intelligence found out where, might it attack to stop the howitzers from being deployed against Russian forces in Ukraine?
22 Feb, 2018
Duck and Cover
“Once those articulate Florida high school students, God love them, are finished exposing the craven emptiness of politicians like Marco...
21 Feb, 2018
Maybe All Threats of Mass Destruction are “Mentally Deranged”
“After Trump’s Sept. 23 bombast at the United Nations where he claimed the US might “have no choice but to...
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...
10 Aug, 2017
Playing Nuclear “Chicken” With Our Lives
“What kind of civilization have we developed when two mentally unstable national leaders, in an escalating confrontation with each other…”...
5 Aug, 2016
What’s Best for Children?
“The policy of nuclear deterrence is a raging failure masked as a roaring success. It is a failure because if...