Accidental Nuclear War: Don’t Lose Sleep over It

May 22, 2023 Recently, I got into a fruitful exchange on Twitter about the dangers of accidental nuclear war during the Russo-Ukrainian conventional war. Since this is an argument / fear I hear expressed quite often, I thought it would be worthwhile to explain why the risks of this particular road to nuclear war are …

Nuclear Weapons and Ukraine: The Deterrent that Never Was

January 9, 2022 I had drafted this post a while back because I have often heard the argument that "had Ukraine not given up its nuclear weapons, this war would never have happened." It always takes a while to explain why this is not so -- and yes, once again, Mearsheimer was wrong about this …