Thirty seconds to midnight SINCE 1947, WHEN THE Science and Security Board (SSB) of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists met for the first time to perform its annual ritual of setting the time on the “Doomsday Clock,” the scientists… Read More
Putin resorts to nuclear blackmail IN APRIL 2013, I wrote a column titled “Nuclear Blackmail,” where I talked about North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s saber rattling, threatening to send nuclear ballistic missiles to the United States and Guam…. Read More
Deaths still high The recorded average daily COVID-19 deaths in the United States, as of last Monday, February 21, 2022, was 2,308 the past week (almost 330 per day), and the daily average COVID-19 infections are 108,056. Yes, still that… Read More
Putin should abide by the Budapest Memorandum WHAT’S GOING ON in President Joe Biden’s mind on the Ukraine crisis? First, he announced that the U.S. would not send soldiers to Ukraine to fight the Russians. Secondly, he just announced that… Read More
