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DoD in denial about budget future, experts say
Monday - 3/25/2013, 5:15am EDT
Not only did Congress not manage to figure out a way around sequestration before the March 1 deadline, with last week's passage of a 2013 government funding bill, lawmakers explicitly left the automatic $85 billion spending cuts in place for the rest of the year.
And numerous defense observers say it's a virtual certainty that even in the event that sequestration is at some point de-triggered, the Pentagon is in for further cuts one way or another, and so far has not taken the necessary steps to plan for the leaner times ahead.
Mackenzie Eaglen, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
That choice is presumably based on the hope that Congress and the President will reach an overarching, long-term budget bargain that will replace sequestration and restore funding the Pentagon was hoping for a year ago.
Consensus of experts is that DoD funding is going down
But Gordon Adams of the Stimson Center, who spoke alongside Eaglen and other experts at an AEI budget forum, said there's a solid consensus among defense experts across the political spectrum that defense dollars are coming down, even beyond the $487 billion DoD has already sliced from its previously-planned spending.
"But there doesn't seem to be a consensus in the Pentagon, and I share Mackenzie's sense that there still is a creeping lack of realism over there. They have their fingers crossed that this will somehow all go away and be better," said Adams, who oversaw defense budgeting from within the Office of Management and Budget during the defense reductions of the 1990s. "And I was struck by the stories that have come out recently that say that the Pentagon is going to accept another $100 billion in 10-year cuts, but push them all past 2019. As a longtime planner, that doesn't make any sense at all except in la-la land. Anything that happens after 2019 isn't a real cut. It doesn't suggest to me a stunning degree of realism."
Gordon Adams, distinguished fellow, Stimson Center
"The bottom-line reality here is we're in a drawdown. The budget's down 10 percent in real terms since 2010, so is procurement, and the Pentagon somehow doesn't quite get it," he said. "The reality to me is not just about sequester, the reality is we're in a drawdown. Sequester accelerates the drawdown, but it's a drawdown nonetheless, and that's the consensus everybody seems to have. So the question is how to go about it sensibly."
Sequestration, which slices away evenly at almost all of DoD's programs and projects, was constructed by design to cut the budget in a non-sensible way so that Congress would force itself to find an alternative.
Dod, White House did not believe sequestration would happen
But Todd Harrison, the senior fellow for defense budget studies at Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, believes DoD and the White House made those nonsensical cuts even worse by staying in denial for the past year about the fact that they were a realistic possibility.
"None of us could have said a year ago that it was certain we'd be under sequestration, but it was perfectly foreseeable that that was a real possibility. There are things DoD could have been doing to prepare for that. Instead, they explicitly told everyone not to start preparing, not to start cutting back on spending, spend at the current rate as if sequestration is not going to happen," he said. "So what happened? Here we are, sequestration took effect five months into the fiscal year, and all these spent at a regular rate. So they have to take the cuts in the last seven months of the year. It makes the cut a lot steeper, and it gives you a lot less flexibility."
Todd Harrison, senior fellow for defense budget studies, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
"They did some early buyouts, early retirements, a hiring freeze, and they're actually at a point right now where they probably won't have to furlough anyone because they've already reduced their headcount. Could DoD have been doing some of that? Could they have started the hiring freeze sooner than they did? Of course they could have," he said. "They could have cut back on spending in some of these operation and maintenance accounts sooner and spread the pain out over a longer period of time so the furlough impact wasn't as large. There are a lot of things they could have done, but they didn't. And now we're seeing that they're doing the same thing for fiscal 2014. They are again assuming the reductions in the budget caps that have been in effect since the supercommittee failed are going to somehow go away in 2014."
Experts say it's imperative Pentagon bring costs under control
But experts say if history is any guide, that assumption is exceedingly unrealistic for DoD in the context of a post-war build down. So instead, the department should be doing things now to significantly cut its costs. For Eaglen, that means beginning to shrink the cost drivers that gradually crept throughout the military during the past decade of nearly unconstrained wartime spending.
"Are they not just further kicking the can on the need to reduce bureaucracy, overhead, infrastructure and acquisition costs? The 780,000-member civilian workforce has been untouched for any reduction of any significant size, while the active military is already dropping pretty significantly. On infrastructure, yes, there was a base closure proposal last year, but it wasn't a serious proposal because there was no money budgeted for it, and it costs money before you start to save money in the BRAC process."
Experts say it's also imperative for the Pentagon to bring its personnel cost growth for uniformed service members under control, but they hesitate to pin the blame for that entirely on DoD's shoulders, since Congress hasn't exactly been helpful.
DoD proposed measures last year to reduce that annual growth rate in military pay and benefits from around 4 percent per year to less than 1 percent. Lawmakers rejected almost all of those ideas in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.
Clark Murdock, the senior adviser for the defense and national security group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said lawmakers have been willing to change military benefits only in ways that make them more costly.
Clark Murdock, senior adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Murdock said in other areas of Pentagon spending, from acquisition overruns to operation and maintenance spending, the only way to meaningfully reduce internal cost growth is to set limits on spending from above.
"And that can only be done with a strong secretary of defense who actually takes control of the budgeting process and controls the dollars," he said. "They're not the commandant of the Marine Corps' dollars, they're not the Air Force major commands' dollars, they're the secretary's dollars, and they're provided by the taxpayer," Murdock said. "The secretary has to take control of the dollars and the database. He's not going to say you have to cut each staff by this much, but he has to say, 'You get this much money for institutional stuff, you get this much for overhead, you get this much to organize, train and equip.' That's the only way this works: cost caps."
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Employees, executives, suppliers, distributors and community partners were on hand for the event held on the factory lawn in front of the nearly 500,000 square-foot plant manufacturing performance diesel engines and diesel-powered equipment.
Yanmar was founded in 1912 in Osaka, Japan, by Magokichi Yamaoka. Representatives from Yanmar Global were at Friday's event to celebrate the company's milestone with the employees and support team of Yanmar America.
"I believe the reason that the company has run such a long time is that we have been offering value to the customers. Without the support of the distributors and the suppliers and of course the employees, we cannot offer such value to the customers. So without the support of all of you, we cannot talk about the history of the company," said Executive Vice President Katsumi Deguchi. "The world today is more complicated than ever before, by globalization of economies, new competitors from emerging markets — especially China — and also very harsh environmental regulations, but it also means there are a lot of chances for us to grow."
In a presentation by Yanmar America President Ted Bregar, a new mission statement was officially unveiled paying tribute to Yanmar's founder.
"Basically the finest people I've ever met, the finest people I've ever had the opportunity to be associated with are within Yanmar and there's a reason for that," Bregar said. "It has a lot to do with the culture that our founder Magokichi Yamaoka was able to establish."
Relaying the story of Yanmar's creation, Bregar told how Yamaoka witnessed farmers and fishermen toiling in manual labor to make a living. Through collaboration with the original inventor of the diesel engine, Yamaoka improved upon the existing designs to create a practical and efficient means of harnessing power for industrial and commercial use.
"The original diesel engine, I don't know if you've seen it or pictures of it, but it was one and a half stories tall producing three horsepower. Through perseverance, what Yamaoka-san did is over the course of about 18 to 24 months he shrunk it to about the size of two room-sized air-conditioning units that produced five horsepower. That was the beginning of the revolution for aiding the farmers and the fishermen in Japan," Bregar said. "So as we celebrate the 100-year anniversary, we are rededicating ourselves to the guiding principles of Mr. Yamaoka. Our new mission statement is eloquent, heart felt and the emboitement of service."
The company's new mission statement is: "We strive to provide sustainable solutions for needs which are essential to human life. We focus on the challenges our customers face in food production and harnessing power, thereby enriching people's lives for all our tomorrows."
Presentations from Bregar and a Yanmar executive engineer highlighted many of the company's plans for the future, including new products and innovations. Incorporating new technology into their engines, Yanmar hopes to use enhanced data tracking measures to improve customer satisfaction and product efficiency.
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A recent report by the Metro Creative Connection states that in 2010, consumers spent more than $1 billion on Cyber Monday.
"First used within the e-commerce community during the 2005 holiday season, the term Cyber Monday was coined after online retailers noticed a substantial increase in sales on the Monday following Thanksgiving," The report states. "This was largely credited to men and women returning to work on Monday after the long holiday weekend and using their company's secure and high-speed Internet connections to make holiday purchases. In fact, many employers have begun to block certain Web sites in an effort to keep employees focused on work and not on their holiday shopping."
Nathan Underwood, owner of Cartersville's Cybertech Cafe, offered some suggestions to ensure a safe online shopping experience.
"If you go directly to [a retailer's official website], you should be fairly safe. Due diligence though is going to be important because a lot of criminals out there really rely heavily on phishing scams where [the attacker] sends an email saying, 'It's the sale of the century from [a retailer], just click this link,'" Underwood said. "Never click links from an email, the email might look legitimate, the site you land on may look legitimate, but the reality is it's an attack site and they're there to rip you off."
When shopping at a retailer's official website, Underwood said to make sure to have the site is secure before making any purchases, taking heed to any warnings about the site's authenticity or security.
"A very popular attack is called 'a man in the middle' and it's just as its name suggests — if you go to [an official website] to do some shopping and you get some error that the [website's] security certificate is not valid or was issued by an unknown authority, very likely what has happened is someone has placed himself in between your computer and the website and they're filtering all your data," Underwood said. "Whatever information you're putting out there, they're gathering and that's the best-case scenario.
"The worst-case scenario is you're on their site directly plugging the information into them and [the official website] has no idea you tried to place an order."
He warned of the increasingly-popular Cool Exploit Kit criminals use, which exposes, for example, a vulnerability in the update for Java 7. The Cybertech Cafe's Facebook page will have updates soon.
The Better Business Bureau reiterates Underwood's advice on safe online shopping this holiday season:
1. Protect your computer — A computer should always have the most recent updates installed for spam filters, anti-virus and anti-spyware software and a secure firewall.
2. Shop on trustworthy websites — Shoppers should start with BBB to check on the seller's reputation and record for customer satisfaction. Always look for the BBB seal and other widely-recognized "trustmarks" on retailer websites and click on the seals to confirm that they are valid.
3. Protect your personal information — BBB recommends taking the time to read the site's privacy policy and understand what personal information is being requested and how it will be used. If there isn't one posted, it should be taken as a red flag that personal information may be sold to others without permission.
4. Beware of deals that sound too good to be true — Offers on websites and in unsolicited e-mails can often sound too good to be true, especially extremely low prices on hard-to-get items. Consumers should always go with their instincts and not be afraid to pass up a "deal" that might cost them dearly in the end.
5. Beware of phishing — Legitimate businesses do not send e-mails claiming problems with an order or an account to lure the "buyer" into revealing financial information. If a consumer receives such an e-mail, BBB recommends picking up the phone and calling the contact number on the website where the purchase was made to confirm that there really is a problem with the transaction.
6. Confirm your online purchase is secure — Shoppers should always look in the address box for the "s" in https:// and in the lower-right corner for the "lock" symbol before paying. If there are any doubts about a site, BBB recommends right-clicking anywhere on the page and select "Properties." This will let you see the real URL (website address) and the dialog box will reveal if the site is not encrypted.
7. Pay with a credit card — It's best to use a credit card, because under federal law, the shopper can dispute the charges if he or she doesn't receive the item. Shoppers also have dispute rights if there are unauthorized charges on their credit card, and many card issuers have "zero liability" policies under which the card holder pays nothing if someone steals the credit card number and uses it. Never wire money and only shop locally on sites like Craigslist.
8. Keep documentation of your order — After completing the online order process, there may be a final confirmation page or the shopper might receive confirmation by e-mail – BBB recommends saving a copy of the Web page and any e-mails for future reference and as a record of the purchase.
9. Check your credit card statements often — Don't wait for paper statements; BBB recommends consumers check their credit card statements for suspicious activity by either calling credit card companies or by checking statements online regularly.
10. Know your rights — Federal law requires that orders made by mail, phone or online be shipped by the date promised or, if no delivery time was stated, within 30 days. If the goods aren't shipped on time, the shopper can cancel and demand a refund. There is no general three-day cancellation right, but consumers do have the right to reject merchandise if it's defective or was misrepresented. Otherwise, it's the company's policies that determine if the shopper can cancel the purchase and receive a refund or credit.


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The woman, Guadalupe Cortes of Soquel, was reported missing at 9 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 4 from the San Lorenzo River at Highlands Park in Ben Lomond.
According to the Sheriff's Office, Cortes was last seen Sunday, Feb. 3 at 12:30 p.m. while she was swimming with two men in the river next to the park.
One of the men reported her missing the next morning. Her 1996 green Jeep was found unoccupied by Sheriff's Deputies in the Highlands parking lot.
Deputies canvassed the area and were unable to find her. They have increased the search to include search dogs and are preparing a water team to search along the river.
Anyone with information or who has seen Cortes is asked to contact the Sheriff's Office dispatch at 471-1121.


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See more info on this item Highlights:sealed enclosure with two 12" WXv2 subwoofers5/8" medium density fiberboard construction covered with dark gray carpet2-ohm impedancepower handling: 150-400 watts RMS (800 watts peak power)frequency response: 22-250 Hzsensitivity: 87 dB32-1/8"W x 15-3/8"H x 11-7/8"Dwarranty: 2 yearsOur 60-day money-back guarantee Hands-on research from the Crutchfield Labs (what are the Labs?) Features and specs chart | What's in the box? | In-depth notes Features and Specs General Woofer Size (inches) 12 x 2 Woofer Material Polypropylene Enclosure Type Sealed Color Gray Pieces in System 1 Width (inches) 32-1/8 Height (inches) 15-3/8 Depth (inches) 11-7/8 Second Depth (inches) N/A Connector Type Spring post Frequency Response 22-250 Hz Power Range (Watts RMS) 150-400 Maximum Wattage 800 Sensitivity 87 dB Impedance 2 ohms Parts Warranty 2 Years Labor Warranty 2 Years Product Research What's in the box? 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Pros: look and sound awesome Cons: the only complaint is that you have to buy the protective grills separately Was this review helpful? Yes | No "Coolness Factor" Build Quality Ease of Use Sound Quality Value 5 out of 5 Thump box!!! Written By Mike B., El Paso, TX on Thursday, October 16, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) This box delivers plenty of the low notes and tones you just don't hear normally. Pros: JL Audio really produced an incredible product!!! Was this review helpful? Yes | No "Coolness Factor" Build Quality Ease of Use Sound Quality Value 5 out of 5 THESE SUBS ROCK Written By Mike, Fort mill sc on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Wow is all I can say. Plug and play. Everything that comes from JL is so high quality. Sounds amazing. Thumps hard. Pros: Light to lift. Very high quality. Sounds great. Nice connectors. Cons: None Was this review helpful? Yes | No "Coolness Factor" Build Quality Ease of Use Sound Quality Value 5 out of 5 High Definition Bass Written By BURG, Lumberton,NJ on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) This subwoofer is installed in a 2013 Honda Acoord EX-L V6 with NAVIGATION. It is powered by a 500 watt mono Soundstream REFERENCE 1.500 amp.The bass is clean and tight with excellent pitch definition. Synthesizer and pipe organ pressurize the air with Visceral impact! The CS212WXv2 is an outstanding value for the money. You would have to spend a substantial amount of money to get better performance! Pros: Excellent fit and finish,looks great with the grill covers installed! After about 150 to 200 hours of break-in these woofers really open up! You get a wide deep soundstage that will put a big smile on your face! Cons: NONE 2 out of 2 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? 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I wasn't looking for earth shattering bass, but to add a little something extra when I don't have my kids in the car. It was perfect, and my third row seat can stay up! Pros: Sounds good Was this review helpful? Yes | No "Coolness Factor" Build Quality Ease of Use Sound Quality Value 5 out of 5 Awesome Sound Awesome Price Written By Brad, Winston Salem, NC on Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Cant beat the sound for this kind of price Pros: even quality, good control Was this review helpful? Yes | No "Coolness Factor" Build Quality Ease of Use Sound Quality Value 5 out of 5 These joints KICK!!! Written By Shadez, Bk,NY on Friday, August 16, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Amazing BASS!!!!! Have it sounding like a concert in my ride!!! Pros: It's all good Was this review helpful? 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I just hope my Civic doesn't fall apart on the road when it hits those lows! Have mercy... Pros: Box has small footprint and is not too heavy. Cool JL logos on the box and woofers. Cons: Mine was damaged slightly during shipping, but i know it's cause UPS throws stuff around like trash. Crutchfield hooked me up with a discount though, which is cool. 2 out of 2 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes | No "Coolness Factor" Build Quality Ease of Use Sound Quality Value 5 out of 5 Great!!!! Written By Clint, Chico, TX on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) This was an awesome sub, but i blew it but still its an amazing sound. Pros: Great Back massage machine lol. Great Sound Quality Cons: For me not enough power Was this review helpful? 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In one of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strips Linus and Charlie Brown are engaged in serious conversation:
"I have a theological question," says Linus. "When you die, and go to heaven, are you graded on a percentage or on a curve?"
"On a curve, naturally," Charlie responds.
Linus asks, puzzled, "How can you be so sure?"
Charlie brightly answers, "I'm always sure about things that are a matter of opinion."
One of the most prominent theological "matters of opinion" is the statement "all roads lead to heaven."
Religion today gets relegated to a matter of personal taste rather than objective reality, much like our tastes in clothes, the colors of our houses and what cars we choose to drive. It's a smorgasbord or buffet. You pick what you want. There's no right and no wrong to it. It's just a matter of your personal tastes.
As a result, comments are made to the effect that if there is a God, he'll understand. After all, everybody is just trying to reach him in different ways. It shouldn't make any difference, as long as you're sincere.
You can't be open-minded and tolerant when it comes to God. Even smart people ought to realize this has got to be true.
In just about every other serious field of knowledge, broad-mindedness is not allowed.
There is no room for broad-mindedness in a chemical laboratory. Water is composed of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. The slightest deviation from the formula is not allowed. Any change to the formula and you wouldn't have water.
There is no room for broad-mindedness in the mathematics classroom. Neither geometry nor calculus nor trigonometry allows any variation from exact accuracy. The solution to the problem is either right or it is wrong.
Every other serious field of knowledge refuses to allow for tolerance of truth. Except, it seems, when it comes to God.
Jesus said in John 16:6: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me," Peter declared in Acts 4:12:"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
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- Pearl said...
i'm SO excited for you!!!
- February 13, 2009 at 10:59 PM
- Maria said...
Wow, the house is really coming along!! I am glad they are making progress! Happy V-day:)
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- Elenka said...
Wow, what a project! It'll all be worth it. Can't wait to see the finished product!
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- Christine said...
This is such an undertaking, Kalyn. You are maintaining such a good attitude, too. Must be because you can visualize the end of the project and the beginning of enjoying your new space. Keep the photos coming!
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- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Agreed this is definitely the "dirt messy" phase.
The anticipations is so great!
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Wow, that is a big trench! Finges crossed that everything continues to go smoothly!!
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Wow! I'm really impressed ... this is a major remodel! So what does this mean for your backyard garden? I'm looking forward to seeing what you plant this year! Happy Valentine's Day!
- February 14, 2009 at 10:44 PM
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Hi everyone,
Snow again this weekend, so I'm trying to stay optimistic for the project. If they snow would stop it sure would help!
Paula, there's still plenty of room for the garden, just a little less lawn to mow! I'm actually planning to have two more raised beds for tomatoes on the south end of the new addition (next to the lower level of the deck.) I think it will be so great to have the tomatoes right by the deck! I'm very excited about the whole project.
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Digging with a backhoe is really fun!
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What a great project! I can't wait to see how it turns out.
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Environmentalist Deborah Barndt to talk about the globalization of the tomato at UM-Dearborn April 10
April 3, 2009
DEARBORN / April 3, 2009---Deborah Barndt, professor of environmental studies at York University, will present Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Trail at noon on Friday, April 10 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in Dining Room B of the campus's Fairlane Center.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the campuss Text in Community lecture series, which is supported by the Office of the Provost to engage the campus community in discussions with authors whose writings focus on significant current or emerging issues.
Barndts book Tangled Routes examines the global food system by following the journey of the corporate tomato from a Mexican agribusiness, a Canadian supermarket and a U.S.-owned fast food restaurant.
"Deborah Barndt integrates art, photography and activism into her research to produce creative and innovative works that are used in classrooms and communities throughout North America, according to Suzanne Bergeron, associate professor of women's studies and social sciences and director of the Womens and Gender Studies Program. Tangled Routes shows the devastating ecological and social impact of global agriculture. Her account of the myriad problems that ensue when we grow tomatoes on factory farms in Mexico and then ship them thousands of miles to fast-food chains in Canada and the United States has made students who have read her book rethink their relationship to the global food system in profound ways. I guarantee that anyone who comes to this talk will never think about the tomato the same way again."
Those wishing to attend the talk should register by Wednesday, April 8 by e-mailing Sharie Beard at email@example.com or by calling 593-4925.
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Avner Cohen
Dr. Cohen, widely known for his path-breaking history of the Israeli nuclear program, is an internationally recognized author and expert on nonproliferation issues, focusing on the Middle East. A consultant to a range of NGOs and governmental agencies, Dr. Cohen joins CNS after serving as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2009-10) and following a ten-year affiliation with the Center for International and Security Studies (CISSM) at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Cohen is a two-time winner of prestigious MacArthur Foundation research and writing awards, in 1990 and 2004, and in 1997-98 and 2007-08, was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). In addition, Dr. Cohen was co-director of the Project on Nuclear Arms Control in the Middle East at the Security Studies Program at MIT from 1990 to 1995. He has been a visiting professor at a number of U.S. universities, and in 2005, was Forchheimer Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University.
Israeli nuclear program; nonproliferation issues in the Middle East; Nuclear age and nonproliferation history; the non-proliferation regime; nuclear weapons and democracy; morality, ethics, and norms in the nuclear age; the movies of the nuclear age; nuclear disarmament; nuclear weapons free zones
Dr. Cohen interviewed on UCBerkeley's Conversations with History
Dr. Cohen holds a B.A. in Philosophy and History from Tel Aviv University, an M.A. in Philosophy from York University, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on History of Culture of the University of Chicago (1981).
Dr. Cohen is the co-editor of Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity (1986) and The Institution of Philosophy (1989), and the author of The Nuclear Age as Moral History (In Hebrew, 1989). His most acclaimed book, Israel and the Bomb, was published in 1998 in English and in 2000 in Hebrew. His latest work, The Worst Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb, was published in October 2010 by Columbia University Press. In addition, he published dozens of professional journals, book chapters, as well as op-eds.
His book THE WORST-KEPT SECRET has a Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/The-Worst-Kept-Secret-Israels-Bargain-with-the-Bomb/163186743694317
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IPOL 8608 - Sem:NucWeapons,Dem&Governance
Few decisions are as important, even fateful, than those regarding nuclear weapons (e.g., research, development, production, deployment, doctrine and ultimately use). But these decisions, historically speaking, have tended to bypass the check-and-balance mechanisms of liberal democracy, thus creating a unique challenge to democratic governance. The political theorist Robert Dahl referred once to the incompatibility between the security and secrecy requirements of nuclear weapons and the spirit of liberal democracy as "tragic tension", while other scholars claimed that nuclear weapons "corrupt" and poison the values of democracy. The purpose of this seminar is to study systematically the challenges that nuclear weapons create for democratic governance. The seminar will explore, philosophically and empirically, this "tragic tension." We will examine the challenge both as a generic issue of the nuclear age, i.e., its bearing on both the substance and the procedure of democracy, as well as a comparative issue that manifests itself somewhat differently in different nuclear democracies (a case by case approach). The seminar will also elaborate on the philosophical linkage that exists between the democratic critique of nuclear weapons and the ideas of nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament.
The seminar will be consisted on one weekly lecture as well as on great deal of individual guidance between the instructor and the students.
Fall 2011 - MIIS, Fall 2012 - MIIS
IPOL 8629 - Sem:NucPolcy-NPT OutlierStates
India, Israel, and Pakistan are the three de facto nuclear weapon states that have been outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since it came into force in 1970. This seminar examines the relationship of these three countries with the nonproliferation regime broadly, both from the perspective of the states in question as well as from the perspective of the international community.
After a quick review of the nuclear history of these three states—including some discussions of similarities and dissimilarities among them—the seminar focuses on the examination of key themes and questions such as: What is the role of nuclear weapons in national security of the three countries? What are the policies on arms control and disarmament in these three countries? What are the attitudes within these countries regarding the different elements of the global nonproliferation regime, such as the NPT, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), and the (proposed) Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT)? How did these positions evolve over several decades? How have these three countries responded to some of the more recent nonproliferation initiatives such as the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)? The seminar will also address the domestic mechanisms through which these three states deal with nuclear issues. Finally, the seminar also explores the different modalities that have been proposed by various parties to integrate the three countries into the nonproliferation regime.
Spring 2012 - MIIS
IPSG 8505 - Global Politics
The course introduces students to key analytical concepts and normative views such as balance of power, unipolarity, multipolarity, unilateralism, multilateralism, etc., and major theoretical perspectives for analysis of international politics, as well as the major international events of the past century that have shaped the international system. Students will learn ways that international actors, including sovereign states and non-state entities such as multinational corporations, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations, exercise power to pursue goals and influence international outcomes. Students will also learn how international institutions, norms, and structures of governance affect the exercise of power and other forms of influence and shape international outcomes. Students will also be introduced to some contemporary issues of national, international, and human security, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and terrorism, as well as issues of globalization, food security, the plight of the LDC's, and human rights.
Fall 2014 - MIIS
NPTG 8558 / IPOL 8558 - Israel and the Bomb
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the study of Israel's nuclear history and policy within the broader context of understanding the nuclear dimension of Middle East politics. The course focuses on the uniqueness and the exceptionality that constitutes Israel's nuclear history and policy. By that uniqueness we mean the original policy which Israel devised to acquire and possess nuclear weapons that ultimately made Israel an exceptional case both vis-à-vis the United States non-proliferation policies and vis-a-vis the non-proliferation regime. That policy is known as Israel's policy of "nuclear opacity" or "nuclear ambiguity," under which Israel has never officially acknowledged to acquire or possess nuclear weapons, even though since 1970s Israel is universally presumed as a nuclear weapons state. The course ends with reflections about challenge that Israel's nuclear uniqueness poses both to the United States nonproliferation policy and the non-proliferation regime as a whole.
Fall 2011 - MIIS, Fall 2012 - MIIS, Fall 2013 - MIIS, Fall 2014 - MIIS
NPTG 8642 - SEM: Moral Dilemmas of Nuc Age
The invention of the atom bomb and subsequent reality of living under threats of mutual assured destruction have created moral dilemmas and paradoxes of a scale that humanity has never before experienced. If waging a nuclear war is viewed as an unprecedented crime against humanity, something that can never be justified morally, how is it that we have created and legitimated a global world-order that relies on the pledge to commit these very crimes? This seminar will explore, from both a historical and an analytical perspective, the dilemmas and paradoxes of the nuclear age. Historically, we will try to examine some of the big decisions of the nuclear age as fundamentally moral decisions. Analytically, we will explore the moral dimensions of nuclear deterrence.
Fall 2013 - MIIS
NPTG 8654 - Sem:WMDProliferatnInMiddleEast
This seminar examines the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in the Middle East, including historical developments, the present context, and alternate potential futures.
Although the focus is on state actors, proliferation risks posed by non-state terrorist organizations will be discussed as well. The course will begin with overview sessions on why states do and do not pursue and acquire nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and on the internal and intrastate politics of the region. Subsequent sessions will focus on key regional countries. The course will conclude with integrative simulation sessions allowing participants to wrestle with the prospects for proliferation and nonproliferation in the region. Students will prepare weekly short memos, conduct group work for integrative simulation exercises, prepare an independent research project, and have various presentation opportunities.
Spring 2013 - MIIS
NPTG 8695 / IPOL 8695 - Sem:NuclearWeapons&Intellignce
This seminar aims to explore the rich nexus involving the proliferation of nuclear weapons and intelligence assessments. Due to the nature of the proliferation dynamics—i.e., nuclear weapons programs are conceived and evolved under strategic and operational secrecy, states tend to define their early nuclear commitments tentatively and ambiguously, the dual use nature of nuclear technology, etc.—identifying and tracing proliferation is epistemologically a difficult task for intelligence. The seminar will explore this difficulty on both the macro and micro levels, that is, from the broad/epistemological level to the narrow empirical/historical case by case level.
In addition, the seminar will examine historically the process by which the US intelligence organizations dealt with some historical cases of proliferation from the Manhattan Project era to the present. The seminar will also examine the process by which intelligence assessments are developed and disseminated, including technologies and human resources. Students will examine some case studies where intelligence assessments have played key roles, including cases of intelligence failures.
Spring 2012 - MIIS, Spring 2013 - MIIS
NPTG 9505 - Global Politics
The course introduces students to key analytical concepts and normative views such as balance of power, unipolarity, multipolarity, unilateralism, multilateralism, etc., and major theoretical perspectives for analysis of international politics, as well as the major international events of the past century that have shaped the international system. Students will learn ways that international actors, including sovereign states and non-state entities such as multinational corporations, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations, exercise power to pursue goals and influence international outcomes. Students will also learn how international institutions, norms, and structures of governance affect the exercise of power and other forms of influence and shape international outcomes. Students will also be introduced to some contemporary issues of national, international, and human security, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and terrorism, as well as issues of globalization, food security, the plight of the LDC's, and human rights.
Fall 2014 - MIIS
WKSH 8585 - Israel's Nuclear Policies
Fall 2010 - MIIS


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