Your 19th nervous break-down
Russia stands to lose nothing by helping advance Iranian nukes
NEW YORK – imagine that the Russians, as Iran's monopoly supplier of nuclear jingoism, decided they could live with a few atomic weapons in Tehran’s hands.
(0 comments)Nunn-Lugar at 15 still a misunderstood teenager at home, thanks to The Washington Post
Last week’s visit of Senator Richard Lugar and former Senator Sam Nunn – the co-architects of the Nunn-Lugar, or Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programme - marked an important 15-year benchmark in what is arguably the most important disarmament effort in modern history.
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A bullet for your thoughts
In the minutes following the brutal and senseless assassination of Anna Politkovskaya last Saturday, my phone and email were abuzz with the shock and outrage of my former colleagues in the Moscow foreign press corps. Many of them were already busily typing away, collecting theories and interviewing one another about our recollections of the iron lady of Russian journalism. The words on the lips of my western colleagues and me were: “It could have been any one of us.”
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