Before broaching the subject of this post, we’ll briefly commemorate Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki Day with a preview of a more comprehensive commemoration. Daniel Ellsberg has written a book-length memoir of the nuclear era titled American Doomsday Machine, which is soon to appear on the Web in…

If Israel and Iran are playing rock, scissors, paper with their nuclear-weapons programs, Israel wins hands down. Kinetic beats potential energy to the punch and Israel is already armed.

On August 3, the Times of London published a story titled Iran is ready to build an N-bomb — it is just…

The development of nuclear weapons can be a significant source of national pride. When Pakistan successfully detonated five nuclear devices during its first underground test in 1998, it was reported: “They were dancing in the streets of Pakistan. … People handed out candies, set off fireworks…