Tag: NPT

• Can’t Historians Predict the Future?

  

  Nostradamus could have been a policy wonk. My favorite not-so-witty quip during my public talks is “historians are always asked to predict the future.”  It usually gets a chuckle.  I say it as a cop-out when someone asks me about anything controversial: the future of nuclear power, the future face of warfare, or whether Iran…

  Jacob Darwin Hamblin

  February 4, 2013

  Commentary

  arming mother nature, Cold War, environment, Henry Kissinger, history, IAEA, Iran, Naval Historical Center, NPT, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, public policy, Richard Armitage, Ronald Reagan, State Department Office of the Historian

• Arms of Precision and Weapons of Mass Destruction

  I am currently researching the spread of nuclear technology in the developing world, which means I have to confront the politics of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.  Although I support the NPT, as a historian it is hard to analyze it without some kind of nod to the “haves” and “have nots” aspect of it.  As…

  Jacob Darwin Hamblin

  August 15, 2012

  Commentary

  Battle of Omdurman, Berlin Treaty, Brussels Declaration, Non-proliferation treaty, NPT, nuclear, Nuclear proliferation, Scramble for Africa

• Nuclear Proliferation Begins with Peace

  I’m at the end of my second full day in the United Kingdom’s National Archives, and I fell asleep three times at my research desk… still suffering a bit from the jet lag.  But it is not (I swear!) from lack of interest in the files I am reading.  It’s true that I get a…

  Jacob Darwin Hamblin

  June 21, 2012

  Commentary

  Iran, Iraq, Non-proliferation treaty, NPT, nuclear, Nuclear proliferation