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“The Art of War”

Who sabotaged the South Stream Gas pipeline?

by Manlio Dinucci , Tommaso di Francesco

Rome (Italy) | 10 June 2014

The construction works on the South Stream gas pipeline, which should have provided the European Union with Russian gas in 2015, have been been disrupted and brought to a halt by Bulgaria, after the US applied pressure on it. The President of the European Commission has supported this decision (...)

Summit on nuclear security or nuclear trading?

by Manlio Dinucci , Tommaso di Francesco

Rome (Italy) | 14 April 2010

President Obama convened a summit for Heads of State to alert them to the possible theft of nuclear materials by terrorists intent on manufacturing an atomic bomb. Needless to say, considering the price of such materials, no one would be so foolish as to let them get stolen and hardly needs (...)

New U.S. nuclear strategy: a warmed-over "novelty"

by Manlio Dinucci , Tommaso di Francesco

Rome (Italy) | 9 April 2010

Washington has just published its new nuclear doctrine as well as signed the new treaty on arms control with Russia in the midst of a big media fanfare. And yet, upon closer scrutiny, the position of the Obama administration does not mark any real shift from that of its predecessors. It (...)

Smokescreen

New START Treaty and old superpower policy

by Manlio Dinucci , Tommaso di Francesco

Rome (Italy) | 3 April 2010

While the United States and Russia are quietly beefing up their budgets and nuclear arsenals, they are about to annouce the signing of a new nuclear arms reduction treaty. The disconnect between reality and political hype is nothing new. But Manlio Dinucci and Tommaso Di Francesco don’t want (...)

Obama’s nuclear strategy

The anti-missile shield and the first strike

by Manlio Dinucci , Tommaso di Francesco

Rome (Italy) | 14 March 2010

The U.S. anti-missile shield project raises a number of questions in terms of feasibility, cost and positioning. However, the main concern has more to do with the philosophy linked to the weapon itself. The denomination of "shield" gives it an exclusively defensive connotation, but in the (...)