'Be a man. Don’t be a big mouth.'
For decades, the US seriously pursued the idea of ‘peaceful nuclear explosions.’
Conducting military strikes against a nation that is engaged in negotiations to reduce its nuclear capacity has set a dangerous precedent.
The war in Iran has cut off diplomatic efforts to limit the country’s development of nuclear weapons. Securing that material and equipment in other ways would be difficult and dangerous.
The expiration of the New START treaty has the US and Russia poised to increase the number of their deployed strategic nuclear weapons, pushing the world into dangerous territory.
Most of the world scarcely noticed when tensions flared between India and Pakistan this spring. Terrorists allegedly killed dozens of civilian…
John Roy Filson was born Nov. 5, 1938, to Jane and Roy Filson in St. Joseph, Mo. He earned a bachelor of science degree in geology from Rice U…