Results for “Weapons of Math Destruction”

…ch have never been subject to numerical limits. To do this we seek to reduce the role and number of US tactical nuclear weapons

a goal President Obama embraced to wild applause in Prague in 2009? The statement that launched “global zero” appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 4

on the few countries seeking nuclear weapons whose possession of them would be dangerous or destabilizing or both. Sanction them. Isolate them. Undermine their regimes. Pressure them mercilessly. Do whatever it takes. But don’t offer to aid their “peaceful” nuclear programs in ex...

… be readier to help us confront Iran and North Korea. The idea seems to be that our support for eliminating all nuclear weapons makes it easier for

3 to either Israel or Egypt and it will be delivered by truck. Sea access must remain blocked to prevent weapons smuggling. The Israeli position defies a brutal truth: last year’s flotilla made a big difference for the people of Gaza — at a terrible cost in lives — by refocusin...

…gic of its own. It builds new platforms, sometimes defined by users or by technology or by the way in which currency or weapons move. Melvin Conway’s deep engineering insight was right, the design of networks does affect our real world. Even now itis shuffling us into “convergenc...

…tion to them. Similarly, when we distort reality by means of deception and self-deception, we have armed ourselves with weapons that enable desire to run wild. Self-deception generates overconfidence. Overconfidence enables us to pursue our desire for power, freed from the reins...

… behaviors it considers unacceptable -- such as support for terrorism, hegemonic ambitions, and progress toward nuclear weapons -- and those it can tolerate. U.S. officials could open the door for negotiations by making clear to Tehran that they do not seek regime change; the fir...

… North Korea and Iran. ¢ The "countdown" towards the troubling vision of Prof. Graham Allison of Harvard about nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists — this countdown, even if it takes 15 years, will start. Therefore, blocking Iran from becoming a "threshold nuclear state" i...

…riri, in which he blatantly played the sectarian card. Cheered by his jubilant supporters, he charged that Hezbollah's weapons were not so much a threat to Israel as to Lebanon's own HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030033

…ations and societies, and of the danger to democracy when it tries to combat totalitarianism with totalitarianism’s own weapons. Wiener’s Cybernetics looked in close scientific detail at the process of control via feedback. (“Cybernetics,” from the ancient Greek for “helmsman,”...

…tarkly different reality of our conflict with the Palestinians. Only two weeks earlier, Arafat’s own police force, with weapons we had given them, had opened fire as I was trying to get Knesset approval for returning three villages that he wanted. After I took office, I'd ordered...

Assad slaughtered 200,000 of his people including by using chemical weapons — and that wasn't enough to get the British parliament and Prime Minister Cameron or the American Congress and President Obama to act. ¢ Then, ISIS beheaded two journalists (not really a new practice in...

… North Korea and Iran. ¢ The "countdown" towards the troubling vision of Prof. Graham Allison of Harvard about nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists — this countdown, even if it takes 15 years, will start. Therefore, blocking Iran from becoming a "threshold nuclear state" i...

…h in According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, China has installed anti-aircraft guns and other weapons systems on seven man-made islands in the South China Sea, including the Johnson Reef, shown above. Map data: Google, DigitalGlobe 2016. At that pace, C...