Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense? Who’ll Defend Against Missile Defense?
Stanford, California Arriving to record a television debate at the Hoover Institution here a few months ago, I found the personnel of the preceding show still standing aro...
Jun 21, 2001 / Column / Christopher Hitchens
Liberating Vieques Liberating Vieques
When George W. Bush announced from Sweden on June 14 that he planned to pull the US Navy out of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques by 2003, it struck some as odd when he referred ...
Jun 21, 2001 / Angelo Falcón
‘The Vietnam Syndrome’ ‘The Vietnam Syndrome’
The Kerrey revelations raise anew issues of morality and military power.
Jun 21, 2001 / Feature / Richard Falk
Star Wars Foes Hit DC Star Wars Foes Hit DC
The two sisters from the Our Lady of Angels convent had driven down from Pennsylvania with a message for their Congressman: Say no to Star Wars. It was proving a tough sell.
Jun 13, 2001 / Feature / Matt Bivens
Russian Nuclear Roulette Russian Nuclear Roulette
A baccalaureate should be an occasion to celebrate the present and express optimism about the future, but I must come to you today with very bad news about Russia, my subject of s...
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Stephen F. Cohen
The New Nuclear Danger The New Nuclear Danger
Policies are more confused than at any time since the weapons were invented.
Jun 7, 2001 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
We’re All Ears We’re All Ears
What sticks in my mind more than any particular accomplishment of the supersecret National Security Agency is its mammoth size. Only a few miles from my home, I now know, exists a...
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Dusko Doder
The Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers
A new memoir stirs long-suppressed memories of the “war without a name.”
May 31, 2001 / Books & the Arts / Adam Shatz
State Outsources Secret War State Outsources Secret War
Best known as a place where the Air Force shoots satellites into orbit, the Eastern Space and Missile Center--just south of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Brevard County--w...
May 23, 2001 / Feature / Jason Vest
Lost in Space Lost in Space
A report by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Space Commission advocates circumventing the intent of international laws that seek to keep space free from war and urges that t...
May 17, 2001 / Karl Grossman and Judith Long