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Hugh Gusterson
Where women warriors will lead
Welcoming women into combat could have a huge impact -- on feminism, the draft, and Army husbands, for a start.
The nuclear dogs that didn't bark
When it comes to nuclear history, why is society more interested in the weapons that were used, rather than those that weren't?
The new abolitionists
A new book highlights five Cold War leaders' conversion from nuclear weapons hawks to fierce opponents of the Bomb. Unfortunately, it neglects to acknowledge the true forebears of the nuclear abolition movement.
Weapons labs and the inconvenient truth
Ever since management of America's nuclear weapons laboratories has been turned over to for-profit consortia, tens of millions of dollars have been routed away from actual science, causing morale to plummet. Of course, that's not the story you'll hear at a congressional hearing in Washington.
An education in occupation
Iraq's once great universities are in ruins -- thanks to the United States.
Death by drone
Does the assassination of American jihadist Anwar al-Awlaki foreshadow the end of America's most sacred principles?
The costs of war
A decade after 9/11 the bill comes due on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The human element
Post-Fukushima, experts have talked a lot about technical improvements and engineering problems at nuclear reactors. But not enough people are talking about the role of basic human fallibility in risking reactor safety.
An appreciation: The Republican senator who opposed nuclear arms
With the passing of Mark Hatfield and Ted Kennedy in the past two years, have we lost the voices who can articulate for the nation the perils of the idolatry of war?
The lessons of Fukushima
If the nuclear disaster teaches us anything, it is that a perfect safety system is unattainable. Will the United States learn from Japan's mistakes?
An open letter to the Tea Party
The Tea Party has the power to change the game in Washington, but, in order to do so, it must first take on big defense contractors and politicians complicit in unnecessary military spending.
Now showing: Countdown to Zero
A new movie for nuclear abolition attracts criticism from surprising quarters.
The olive branch in the West Bank
Showcasing a world where local Fatah, Hamas, and Israeli activists come together, a new documentary provides a snapshot of what peace looks like between Palestine and Israel.
Against counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
How much do we have to lose before the Obama administration realizes that counterinsurgency won’t win?
Do professional ethics matter in war?
The U.S. military's controversial use of embedded anthropologists in Iraq and Afghanistan is both unethical and ineffective. It's time to shut this program down.
An American suicide bomber?
While some pundits find it impossible that Washington would ever employ a war-fighting strategy that involves suicide bombers, they too easily forget the country's suicidal dance with nuclear weapons.
Afghanistan: Vietnam all over again
Seemingly confident that he can avoid the miscalculations LBJ made in Vietnam 45 years ago, President Obama believes escalation will resolve the conflict in Afghanistan--a misbegotten strategy, then and now.
How to get out of Afghanistan
The answer isn't ordering more troops or drone attacks, it is conducting shrewd negotiations that will divide the many disparate elements that constitute the Taliban.
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Columnist Resources
Recent Work
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"Anthropologists Should Stay Off the Front Line"
New Scientist (July 30, 2008) -
"When Professors Go to War"
Foreign Policy (July 2008) -
"Paranoid Potbellied Stalinist Gets Nuclear Weapons: How the U.S. Print Media Cover North Korea"
Nonproliferation Review (March 2008) -
"Anthropology and Militarism"
Annual Review of Anthropology (September 2007) -
"Taking the Reliable Replacement Warhead Personally"
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (July/August 2007 print edition)
Recommended Links
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Federation of American Scientists
Nonpartisan technical analysis on complex global issues that hinge on science and technology -
Iraq Slogger
Insights, scoops, and blunders about the Iraq War -
LANL: The Corporate Story
Anonymous weblog that provides an uncensored LANL forum -
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
U.S. nuclear weapons lab -
Los Alamos National Laboratory
U.S. nuclear weapons lab -
Military Anthropology Network
Online community that facilitates free and informed exchange between academics and practitioners on matters related to culture, anthropology, and the security sector -
Natural Resources Defense Council: Nuclear Weapons, Waste & Energy
NRDC's coverage of nuclear issues -
Network of Concerned Anthropologists
Independent, ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology -
Nuke Test Films
Library of declassified U.S. nuclear test films -
Science Progress
A project of the Center for American Progress that seeks to improve science understanding among policy makers