Robert Alvarez joins Scott to discuss his latest article for CommonDreams.org "Korea: End the 67-Year War." According to Alvarez there's no political will on either side to end the war—instead, the United States believes tensions between the two countries further U.S....
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Dennis Rodman Could Save Us All from Nuclear War
Former Bulls star and North Korea’s leader are an unlikely pair that just may save us all – well, at least from a nuclear disaster that is. Dennis Rodman, who has also paid several visits to Kim Jong Un, says the two talk about everything but politics during Rodman’s...
After WaPo Reports NK Has ‘Missile-Ready’ Nukes, Peace Is (Still) the Only Option
Today, The Washington Post reported that North Korea has developed the capability to miniaturize its nuclear weapons and use them on their existing missiles. The story cited excerpts from a confidential and undisclosed assessment by the US Defense Intelligence Agency...
After WaPo Reports NK Has 'Missile-Ready' Nukes, Peace Is (Still) the Only Option
Today, The Washington Post reported that North Korea has developed the capability to miniaturize its nuclear weapons and use them on their existing missiles. The story cited excerpts from a confidential and undisclosed assessment by the US Defense Intelligence Agency...
Be Grateful That We Still Have Memorial Day
What if soldiers were all replaced by robots? We'd have no one to mourn, except the civilian victims of war. We'd have no need for Memorial Day. Even so, such a world would be our worst nightmare. A lynchpin of success for many of the non-violence movements in the...
5/8/17 Conn Hallinan: the New Nuclear Arms Race
Conn Hallinan, a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist, discusses how improvements in the accuracy of US submarine-based nuclear missiles are ending an era of mutually assured destruction (MAD) nuclear policy, and leading to a dangerous first-strike doctrine. Other...
Why Our Nuclear Weapons Can Be Hacked
It is tempting for the United States to exploit its superiority in cyberwarfare to hobble the nuclear forces of North Korea or other opponents. As a new form of missile defense, cyberwarfare seems to offer the possibility of preventing nuclear strikes without the...
2/10/17 Tom Collina on the enduring Cold War-era ‘nuclear sponge’ plan to lure Russian missiles to 5 sacrificial Midwestern states
Tom Collina, the policy director for Ploughshares Fund, discusses why the Trump administration is planning to spend $100 billion to replace hundreds of old ICBMs deployed across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming, even though they are part of an...
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