Anyone who studies nuclear weapons policy or nuclear proliferation should check out Brad Thayer’s “What to Read on Nuclear Proliferation” at Foreign Affairs. It identifies several must-reads for academics, students, and policymakers in the nuclear weapons business.
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The Nation: Obama’s Foreign Policy Too Moderate
The Nation’s Robert Dreyfuss recently wrote a critique of Sen. Obama’s foreign policy, championing it here:
In some important areas, Obama would alter or reverse course: he’d draw down forces in Iraq; open talks with adversaries such as Iran, Syria and Cuba; end torture and close Guantánamo; renounce unilateralism and preventive wars; rebuild ties with allies; and re-engage with the Kyoto climate change initiative. He’s also pledged to halt the development of and to seek a “world without nuclear weapons.” In sharp contrast to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, Obama would start to put the threat of terrorism in its proper perspective, elevating the importance of other threats to security, from poverty to pandemic disease to global warming.
And then challening it here:
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