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There’s a line in the 1983 movie “WarGames” where Joshua, a computer-generated character inside the Pentagon’s main war computer, has this to say about nuclear war: “A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
A new video game called “Defcon: Everybody Dies” ($17.50 direct download, $26.25 boxed copy, not rated, [...]

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Which leads us to the second point. We should assume that other countries in Asia will also “go nuclear.”
Even before the North Korean nuke, the South Koreans have had the capacity to “become” a nuclear power at the issuance of an order and the flick of a switch. After all, if deterrence [...]

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North Korea turned a defiant face to the world yesterday, threatening to conduct more nuclear tests and to retaliate against any “harassment” by America.

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Preventing North Korea from selling nuclear materials would depend on China and Russia.
WASHINGTON — The sanctions demanded by U.S. officials in response to North Korea’s announcement this week that it had tested a nuclear device would focus on closing pathways to proliferation of weapons technology.
But U.S. officials say any such effort would [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) – Encouraging Japan to build nuclear weapons, shipping food aid via submarines, and running secret sabotage operations inside North Korea’s borders are among a raft of policy prescriptions pushed by prominent U.S. neo-conservatives in the wake of Pyongyang’s nuclear test.

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From shipbuilding to RAM, a nuke strike on North Korea’s neighbors would take out huge layers of high-tech production. Luckily, it’s unlikely to occur.
Now that North Korea has nukes, will it use them? It’s clearly unlikely. The North for years has had the capability of incinerating much of South Korea with conventional [...]

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The Chinese see their country matching the US in terms of global influence within the next 10 years, while a majority of Americans, Chinese and Indians see the US losing its status as the world’s unrivalled superpower within the next half century, according to an international poll released on Wednesday.

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Few countries have been more affected and influenced by the United States’ defense transformation than China – and with good reason. The US increasingly regards China as the key peer challenger to its primacy in the Asia-Pacific region. China, for example, was singled out in the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review as having, [...]

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Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union there have been worrying signs of a virulent strain of radical nationalism in Russia. The popularity of Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s ultranationalist and inaptly named Liberal Democratic Party, the rise of neo-Bolshevik racist groups that combine Nazi and communist imagery, and the rising tide of racially [...]

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For about 45 minutes, we discused how since taking office in 2000, former KGB chief-turned Russian President Vladimir Putin has built strong personal, political and military ties to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. Putin has sold Iran and North Korea billions of dollars worth of arms [...]

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