Obama Has Plans to Cut U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, if Russia Reciprocates
In a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, President Obama will resume a drive toward disarmament that had been largely shunted aside.
Emerging Risks
Does cutting U.S. nukes really matter? - CNNPolitics
As President Obama proposes deep cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons arsenals, Pentagon war planners work to make these weapons more accurate and deadly.
Welcome to Cold War II
Did Washington just give Israel the green light for a future attack on Iran via an arms deal? Did Russia just signal its further support for Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime via an arms deal? Are...
The emergence of a new cold war – China and Russia against USA?
Last June, Russian President Vladimir Putin chose Beijing as the first destination of his visit abroad after he was reelected Russian president. He made the choice to show the importance he attache…
Indecision Time for Putin as Russia Drifts Toward Stagnant Authoritarianism
Russia’s departure from quasi-democracy is beyond doubt, but it drifts rather than marches toward a debilitated and corrupt authoritarianism as Vladimir Putin’s third presidency settles into a tedious pattern. The discourse of “modernization” has been discarded and most of Dmitry Medvedev’s “innovations” have been cancelled, but Putin’s meeting with the activists of Popular Front, which was supposed to keep his …