Nukes: You Can Never Turn Your Back
The best way to protect ourselves from deadly radioactivity is to get rid of the stuff altogether.
Nuclear Generations
Obama’s preparing for many generations of nukes.
Unsafe at Any Reactor
U.S. nuclear plants are storing increasing amounts of highly radioactive spent fuel in pools that are vulnerable to accident or attack. New safety policies are needed.
Safeguarding Spent Fuel Pools in the United States
A drained spent fuel pool in the U.S. could lead to a catastrophic fire that would result in long-term land contamination substantially worse than what the Chernobyl accident unleashed.
Japan’s Nuclear Emergency: Media Briefing
Peter Bradford, Robert Alvarez, Erich Pica, and Dr. Jeffrey Patterson addressed Japan’s nuclear emergency with the media.
What About The Spent Fuel?
Until recently, concerns about attacks on nuclear power plants focused mainly on the vulnerability of reactors. Spent fuel ponds may be even more difficult to safeguard.
Hamid Karzai Moves From Lightweight To Heavyweight In Afghan Politics
Without a trial, the memory of the Khmer Rouge horror will remain an open wound in the psyche of Khmer society.
American Public Diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim World: A Strategic Communication Analysis
To reach its public diplomacy goals, the U.S. will need to master the tools of intercultural and public communication.
The Bush Administration & the Israeli-Palestinian Stalemate
Whether or not the shaky cease-fire in effect since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States holds, the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace remain dim.
Addressing the Demand Dimensions of Small Arms Abuse: Problems and Opportunities
The violence associated with small arms abuse is linked to criminality and can be best addressed by controlling the trade in illicit arms
Bonn and Genoa: A Tale of Two Cities and Two Movements
Genoa and Bonn, taken together, portray the Janus face of globalization.
The Failure of U.S. Policy Toward Iraq and Proposed Alternatives
Current U.S.-UN Iraq policy has failed. A change to a more humane and practical policy by the U.S. would quickly be accepted by the UN Security Council as a whole.
CIA: The Need for Reform
Reprimands in the Ames case prompted a mass exodus of bitter senior managers, who had refused to accept the need for punishing those who ignored the fact that a Soviet spy had contaminated the agency at the highest levels
The Gulf War: 8 Myths
Washington’s misguided policies toward Iraq but have warped the overall thrust of U.S. foreign and military policy for the past decade.
Rumsfeld Reconsidered: An Ideologue in Moderate’s Clothing
The Rumsfeld Commission report is, at its core, a landmark in political spin control, not a landmark in objective analysis of the threats facing our nation.