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Yemeni missiles: Same old, same old
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2018
» 'We must speak with one voice in exposing the regime for what it is -- a threat to the peace and security of the whole world," said US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley last December, trying to drum up support for stronger international sanctions against Iran, and maybe even an actual attack on the country. Here we go again.
Trump, Kim have reasons to be civil
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/03/2018
» I think I know why President Donald Trump suddenly agreed to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after a year of mutual threats and verbal abuse.
US military revives its tired 'limited' nuclear war theory
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/02/2018
» The US "Nuclear Posture Review" recently published by the Pentagon announced the United States will get two new types of nuclear weapons to provide, in the words of US officials, "more flexible capabilities to give tailored deterrence".
Is Trump twigging to 'rational accommodationism'?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/12/2017
» Here we go again. Whenever North Korea launches a new long-range missile or does another nuclear test, US President Donald Trump condemns the test and warns Pyongyang not to do it again, while his generals and diplomats point out that it "threatens the entire world". But latterly, the pattern has been evolving.
Nuclear codes 'the length of a tweet'
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/11/2017
» 'The president has absolute authority, unilateral power to order the use of nuclear weapons," said Bruce Blair. The nuclear codes are "the length of a tweet. It would take them one or two minutes to format and transmit that directly down the chain of command to the executing commanders of the underground launch centres, the submarines and the bombers".
Next Middle East war set for Lebanon
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/11/2017
» 'When all the Arabs and the Israelis agree on one thing, people should pay attention. We should stop this Iranian takeover," said Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month. So we're paying attention now, and we even know where the next war will start: Lebanon.
Why China won't budge on N Korea
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/11/2017
» Over the next few days, Donald Trump will be visiting the leaders of Japan, South Korea and China, and the same topic will dominate all three conversations: North Korea. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in will be looking for reassurance that the United States will protect them from North Korea's nuclear weapons, but in Beijing Mr Trump will be the supplicant.
Trump won't be able to stop Iran nukes if treaty axed
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/10/2017
» 'One orb to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
Adult supervision a tricky business at the White House
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/10/2017
» Here's the scenario. Late one evening Donald Trump is watching Fox News and a report comes on that North Korea is planning to launch a missile that can reach the United States. (Kim Jong-un's regime has said it is going to do that one of these days -- but only as a test flight landing in the ocean somewhere, not as an attack.)
Dial back on the rhetoric to deal with N Korea's nukes
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/09/2017
» The last time when North Korean nuclear weapons might have been headed off by diplomacy was 15-20 years ago, when there was a deal freezing North Korean work on nuclear weapons, and then one stopping the country's work on long-range ballistic missiles.