James Wood Forsyth Jr. and B. Chance Saltzman (USAF) and Gary Schaub (AWC): Remembrance of Things Past: The Enduring Value of Nuclear Weapons. From Air & Space Power Journal, a special issue (Winter 2009) on nuclear weapons. A review of Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security — From World War II to the War on Terrorism by Julian E. Zelizer. A review of Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement by Lawrence Wittner. A global debate is rising on the merits — and feasibility — of total nuclear disarmament. How can nuclear weapons be abolished when nuclear technology has gone global? A review of Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies by David Albright (and more). Russ Wellen on nuclear weapons: When our national security makes us insecure. Will the START treaty be the dead end of Obama's no-nukes dream? President Obama has significantly limited the role of nuclear weapons in future defense policy — will it help rid the world of nukes, or put America in danger? Why did the Nuclear Posture Review bomb? With its defining statement on nuclear policy, the Obama administration struggles to move past 1949. What China, Pakistan, Russia and the U.K. think about the President's move to reduce the importance of nuclear weapons in future US defense policy. The Obama administration's Nuclear Posture Review wins over last holdout: Defense Secretary Gates. How revolutionary is Obama's nuclear posture? Marc Ambinder on flanking the Right on nuclear policy. Your guide to National Nuke Policy History Month. Why is Obama literally nuking swing states in America at this very moment? (and more on the quintessential Fox News image). Here are ten things to help get you through the inevitable nuclear apocalypse.
