Read the full piece in Medium.  President-elect Donald Trump has long bragged about his ability to negotiate good deals. The opening line of his 1987 book claims: “Deals are my art form.” A good test of that facility will come when he is dealing leader-to-leader with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Read the full piece […]

Read the full piece in Medium. Looking at United States and world nuclear stockpiles, it is easy to see why there are widely divergent views about where we are more than 70 years into the nuclear bomb era. American use of atomic bombs to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 remains controversial. One camp, representing the […]

Read the full piece in The Huffington Post.  Imagine having minutes – perhaps as few as six by the time the issue is brought to the President’s attention – to determine the fate of every living person on the planet. This may sound like a philosophical thought experiment, but under current policy, this scenario could […]

Read the full piece in SF Gate.  With the United States embarking on an enormously expensive top-to-bottom reconstitution of its nuclear arsenal, the moment has arrived to end a nearly 60-year national commitment to the nuclear triad by eliminating all land-based missiles. The U.S. would be better off strategically and financially without the triad, and […]

Read the full piece in Medium. Donald Trump confused the nuclear doctrine of no first use of nuclear weapons and a first nuclear strike at his debate with Hillary Clinton on September 26. But that distinction is lost on most people. On Monday evening, NBC anchor Lester Holt asked: “On nuclear war, President Obama considered […]