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...cooperation with the U.S. That, in turn, is bound to anger China and could push Beijing to spend more on nuclear weapons to ensure that Japan doesn't feel invulnerable. An icy East Asian cold war and a very hot arms race between Japan and China are a greater prospect now than they were a week...
...conducted in response to India's tests held a couple of weeks earlier), is now viewed, as Fitzpatrick puts it, as a "responsible" nuclear state. It has not gone to war with India, its archrival, and--precisely because war now brings risk of nuclear annihilation on both sides--that prospect is less likely than it was before Pakistan joined India. Deterrence worked during the cold war, and it can work...
...stayed together nearly the entire race, according to Hafer. “We haven’t done that a lot before,” Hafer said. “We were really able to work together.” The Crimson was additionally motivated, Hafer said, by the prospect of revenge against Yale. “We wanted to beat them,” he said. But he added, “We’re wanting to beat a lot more teams than Yale this year.” Juniors Christopher Green (25:38) and Brian Holmquest...
...competition to be the un-Hillary, Warner had risen to the top. He was doing everything right as he positioned himself to run for the presidency - raising buckets of money for other Democrats, schmoozing activists in key primary states, winning lots of positive reviews in the press. Although the prospect of competing with Senator Clinton for the nomination is daunting for any Democratic candidate, Warner had firmly established himself as a top-tier alternative. If anyone was in a position to topple Hillary, or to benefit if she chose not to run, it was Warner...
...South Korea, which until now had been pushing to make nice with the North. In in the wake of the test, it's almost impossible to see how Kim can avoid action by the U.N. Security Council. And though truly punitive sanctions are unlikely, at least at first, the prospect of the international community finally condemning Kim in a single voice has to count as some kind of progress...