The Bush administration is indisputably soft on Pakistani nuclear proliferation. Check out the latest bombshell from the WaPo's Dafna Linzer. Meantime, the Boston Globe's Drake Bennett profiles political science professor Kenneth Waltz who argues some more countries acquiring nuclear weapons is stabilizing:

Especially in a unipolar world, argues Waltz, the possession of nuclear deterrents by smaller nations can check the disruptive ambitions of a reckless superpower. As a result, in words Waltz wrote 10 years ago and has been reiterating ever since, ''The gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared.''

Posted by Laura at March 20, 2005 09:26 AM