Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power by Sheila A. Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars Before I say anything about this book, I need to confess I know the author (to whatever degree), highly respect her expertise on Japan (she's the Council on Foreign Relations' Senior Fellow for Japan), so this commentary and …
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(Non)proliferation. For the past 60+ years, the US has led the world in arguing for nonproliferation and with the NPT some decades ago and a lot of diplomacy to go with it, virtually every country in the world signed it. The few that didn't were known or thought to have nuclear weapons and these were …
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Hi All. Sorry I haven't been posting and I don't have time to explain now, but my schedules and the degree of my responsibilities and overall business have radically changed, my health is rapidly deteriorating, and we've been EXTREMELY busy house hunting, which looks like it's finally going to pay off after over seven long, …
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Create Your Own Visited States Map I need more mountain and northwestern states. I'll fill this in eventually. Still, I think I've done pretty well.... Blog readers -- do your own map and then share your link to it in my comments section. I'd like to see where you've been. This is my 450th blog …
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