“The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama and Medvedev made moves to take the levels down to 1,000—then to 500? If so, come show us the math. If not, it may be time to stop making arms control so politically complicated—time to stop letting arms control get in the way of disarmament.” PoliticsUnited StatesRussiaNuclear WeaponsNational SecurityGeopoliticsNew StartNuclear DisarmamentBarack ObamaArms ControlDmitry Medvedev Author:Fred Kaplan
“...[T]he Normans, with the usual policy of conquerors, were jealous of permitting to the vanquished Saxons the possession or the use of swords and spears. These circumstances rendered the assistance of the Saxons far from being so formidable to the besieged as the strength of the men themselves, their superior numbers, and the animation inspired by a just cause, might otherwise well have made them.” Gun ControlArms Control Book:Ivanhoe Source: Ivanhoe
“Both tend to speak of national security as though it were still capable of being dissociated from universal well-being; in fact, sometimes in these political addresses it sounds as though this nation, or any nation, through force of character or force of arms, could damn well rise above planetary considerations, as though we were greater than our environment, as though the national verve somehow transcended the natural world.” Environmental ProtectionArms Control Book:Essays of E.B. White Source: Essays of E.B. White
“War is no longer an event. It is a condition. At its core, war is brutally simple. It does not create—it destroys. It does not negotiate—it takes. The objective is clear: weaken the enemy, seize what can be taken, and protect what must not be lost. Everything else—strategy, diplomacy, justification—comes later.” WarGeopoliticsArms Control Book:THE BUSINESS OF WAR Source: THE BUSINESS OF WAR