Nuclear Weapons

^{Stephen C. Meyer
April 25, 2023
National Defense, Technology}

Time to Neutralize North Korea’s Missile Threat

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 25, 2023
National Defense, Technology}

Missile defense experts have long advocated a multi-layered approach to missile defense because of the difficulty of destroying an ICBM in flight. Yet, currently the United States relies on only one layer of homeland missile defense, a ground-based system of anti-missile interceptors based in Alaska and California. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Next Memorial Day, Remember the Atomic Veterans Who Died for Their Country

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

I dread Memorial Day. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t honor our military heroes who died for their country. To the contrary, I hold them in the highest esteem. It’s just that I hate having to stifle the rage I experience every year as that important commemoration day rolls around. Read More ›

Collision of nuclei of elementary particles, image of nuclear reactions in the model. An explosion with the release of a huge amount of heat and power and light. Generative AI

^{John Wohlstetter
June 12, 2013
Foreign Policy}

Who Knows Who Has The Bomb? Not Us

_{John Wohlstetter
June 12, 2013
Foreign Policy}

The stunning revelation that a segment of the intelligence community believes that North Korea already has a nuclear weapon compact enough to be placed upon a ballistic missile shows anew the limits of what intelligence agencies can determine as to what goes on in closed societies. What matters from a standpoint of intelligence acuity is less whether Pyongyang can put Read More ›

^{John Wohlstetter
March 24, 2014
Foreign Policy}

Sleepwalking with the Bomb

_{John Wohlstetter
March 24, 2014
Foreign Policy}

About the Book Sleepwalking with the Bomb shows how we can forestall nuclear catastrophe. It offers familiar faces, cases and places to illustrate how the civilized world can face the most pressing nuclear dangers. Drawing from both history and current events, John Wohlstetter assembles in one place an integrated, coherent and concise picture that explains how best to avoid the Read More ›