GEOPOLITICS

U.S.-Chinese relations are worse than at any time since the renewal or relations began in the early 1970s.  As in the late 1940s, we are witnessing, and suffering, the restructuring of the global disorder into a new, extremely dangerous, and totally unnecessary confrontation analogous, but not identical, to the Cold War.

If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to re-start nuclear tests, it will complete the unraveling of more than 50 years of arms control agreements, taking the world back to the days when school children practiced “duck and cover,” and people built backyard bomb shelters.

The era of nuclear naval propulsion began in January 1955 with the commissioning of the USS Nautilus SSN-571.

There may be a responsible way to fight the Islamic State, but the U.S. will have to leave its boots in the closet and the drones in the hangar.