I am disappointed in Bill Maher’s readout of his dinner with President Trump. Maher found Trump charming and gracious, with no name calling or epithets. My theory is that Trump could do this because he won, and Maher lost.  Unspoken but underlying the conversation was Trump’s view that I kicked your butt.  I can be…

In the course of a general talk I said that the first preoccupation must be to prevent further aggression in the future by Germany or Japan. To this end I contemplated an association of the United States, Great Britain, and Russia. If the United States wished to include China in an association with the other…

Early the following morning I lay in bed in my saloon on the train composing, in the light of the general discussion which had taken place, a note on my views on post-war security. I called this paper “Morning Thoughts”. One paragraph is possibly worthy of preservation in the light of subsequent events:  It is…

Wired magazine reports on how soon it will be before quantum computers are able to crack all the encryption we are using tody. It says: One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your…

The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training reports how the US removed highly enriched uranium from Kazakstan. Quoting the oral history of Janet Bogue, it says: According to Bogue, the U.S. government at first wanted nothing to do with it. Washington officials didn’t believe it could be highly enriched uranium, so Bogue’s team arranged to…

The Financial Times reports: rench Pres­id­ent Emmanuel Mac­ron has invited fel­low European lead­ers to dis­cuss whether, and how, his coun­try’s nuc­lear arsenal could be used as a deterrent against future Rus­sian aggres­sion. But his allies may not like the lim­it­a­tions he may choose to keep on the force de frappe. The idea of extend­ing the…