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One Deliverable Nuke-Summit Achievement: Ukraine Will Get Rid of Its Uranium

By | 04.12.10 | 2:51 pm

Take that, Washington Post poll! Ukraine has ponied up to the Nuclear Security Summit with a significant national contribution, as per a White House release:

Today, at the Nuclear Security Summit, Ukraine demonstrated its leadership, announcing a landmark decision to get rid of all of its stocks of highly enriched

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Raise Your Hand if You Think the Senate Can Pass a Nuke-Test-Ban Treaty

By | 02.18.10 | 9:49 am

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, simply put, is an international accord banning above-ground nuclear-weapons testing. Most of the world has embraced it, including every nuclear power except India. The two nuclear powers that have signed the treaty but have not ratified it are China and the U.S., which More…

The Dangers of Armed Leftism

By | 02.20.09 | 11:35 am

I dunno, Weigel. You say it’s “hard to argue” with the contention that “Facing a leftist American administration is nothing in comparison, for instance, to facing the Soviet Empire.” What that overlooks is that this “leftist American administration” possesses nuclear weapons. Think of the message that sends!