Amid competition with China, the already-robust US military presence in the Pacific is being expanded, with new bases planned for the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau. Activists and Indigenous people living on America’s unsinkable Pacific aircraft carriers increasingly assert the right to live not on a battleship but as part of nature.

It’s sometimes forgotten that in March 2013 the head of America’s Pacific Command said the top security threat in the region was global warming. Simon Winchester thinks it’s worth remembering.

The nuclear weapons states seem to have accepted the idea that a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons—known informally as the ban treaty—could indeed be the result of a UN conference being held this June and July in New York City. Nevertheless, some observers maintain that even if a ban treaty were to be negotiated, it … Continued

While the nuclear situation between India and Pakistan is not good, it's been over-dramatized as near-inevitable here in the West, says a noted physicist from the region.

Moving past the Ukraine crisis will require a mindset rare among national leaders. It is a mindset capable of seeing connections, patterns, and dynamic systems, one with a sightline extending into the future beyond the next political election, and into the past as seen by others who experienced it.

What drove Qaddafi to decide to eliminate his proscribed weapons programs? Could those conditions be replicated elsewhere?