Nuclear Weapons, the Iran War, and Economic Growth

Historians and Nobel laureate Economists on current events that are "risk on".

A. David Holloway has recently written the magisterial Nuclear Weapons: An International History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2026). Holloway’s extensive archival and primary source based research promises to rewrite the prehistory and the first / second generation of strategic culture theory-building.

B. What happens when a whale is born?

C. A Federal Judge has just saved NPR and PBS from the second Trump administration.

D. Economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman on the Iran War. He also has a Substack.

E. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on Economic Growth by Nobel laureate Dean Acemoglu.