John Mueller

Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University

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Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University; author of Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them and of the forthcoming Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al Qaeda

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Will the Nuclear Summit Make Us Safer?

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After the Nuclear Summit, What Happens Now?

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Will Afghanistan Be President Obama's Vietnam?

President Obama is putting his stamp on the war in Afghanistan.   General David McKiernan has now been replaced by Lt. General Stanley McChrystal, "a rising superstar" who'll…

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