Nuclear Sword of Damocles

"NAGASAKI -- The end of the Cold War didn't end the threat of nuclear annihilation. An increasing number of experts worry that the dangers posed by those weapons of mass destruction are increasing as the nuclear nonproliferation regime is increasingly stretched and frayed."

So says Brad Glosserman, director of research at Pacific Forum CSIS, writing in The Japan Times today. It's a fitting quote for BASIC's first blog entry. The British American Security Information Council (BASIC) has been advocating for nuclear weapons nonproliferation and sensible international security proposals for sixteen years, by publishing research and analysis first on old-fashioned paper, then on our website and email lists. Now we're entering the blogging era.

On Your BASIC Nuclear Weapons Policy Blog, we hope to point out interesting items you might otherwise miss, provide analysis that you might not otherwise hear, and put into context the dazzling array of disparate items that come flying across our screens and into our mailboxes each and every day.

We hope you'll join us.

Matt Martin