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Fighting With Numbers
Ask any government statistician: The B-1 Bomber won us the Cold War. Not in the way you might think. No bomber ever dropped payloads over...
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Apr 26, 20233 min read


Perception in Politics: An Interview with Robert Jervis
Robert Jervis is a professor of international politics at Columbia University. He studies the intersection of psychology and...
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Sep 29, 20207 min read


Boeing and Iran: Boeing’s Quest to Give the Iran Deal a Soft Landing
In the present-day United States, no landmark political decision is insulated from commercial interests: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


Minding Mines: The Imperative for Making Nuclear Energy Cleaner
On December 20, 1951, the United States switched on the first peaceful nuclear power reactor the world had ever seen: Experimental...
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May 12, 20176 min read


India and Pakistan: Second Cold War, Third World War?
On September 17th, the latent tension between South Asian heavyweights India and Pakistan escalated into overt hostility after an attack...
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Nov 12, 20166 min read


Making A Deal With Iran
Last month, a group of nations led by the United States agreed to extend important negotiations with Iran regarding its nuclear program....
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Dec 23, 20144 min read


Regional Implications in the Iranian Nuclear Deal
For years, Iran and Western powers have had a relationship marked by distrust, suspicion and open animosity. The diplomatic gridlock...
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Dec 5, 20134 min read


Israel: The Real “Red Line”
Over the past two years, civil war has ravaged Syria. There has been over 100,000 deaths reported by the UN and extensive economic...
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Sep 12, 20134 min read


Hagel Bites
Asked who America’s number one foreign enemy is, which country would you answer? If you follow the news, you’d probably say either North...
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Apr 21, 20136 min read


Bibi’s Comically Terrifying “Red-Line Bomb”
Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, classmate of Sr. Romney, has outdone himself. In what is now a legendarily cavalier portrait of recklessly...
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Sep 28, 20122 min read
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