{"id":529802,"date":"2010-04-16T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82560"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:15:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:15:57","slug":"tnr%e2%80%99s-scoblic-heads-to-senate-foreign-relations-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529802","title":{"rendered":"TNR\u2019s Scoblic Heads to Senate Foreign Relations Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Scoblic, the executive editor of the New Republic magazine, will soon become a senior policy adviser on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Scoblic&#8217;s a nuclear weapons expert &#8212; he came to TNR seven years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armscontrol.org\/act\/2003_03\/editor_mar03\">from Arms Control Today <\/a>and wrote an excellent book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/U-S-Versus-Them-Half-Century-Conservatism\/dp\/0670018821\">U.S. vs. Them<\/a>, tracing the history of nuclear weapons policy in post-World War II ideological debates. Accordingly, his first big job is helping the Senate ratify the New START nuke-reduction treaty with Russia, although his portfolio will extend to security issues beyond just nuclear weapons.<span id=\"more-82560\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure: I worked for Scoblic for a bunch of years at the magazine, and while saying this now represents a conflict of interest, his arrival on the committee staff will be very welcome news for arms controllers and very unwelcome news for opponents. Should the committee chairman, John Kerry (D-Mass.), end up succeeding Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state, it wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if Scoblic helped negotiate the next arms-reduction treaty after New START.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Scoblic, the executive editor of the New Republic magazine, will soon become a senior policy adviser on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Scoblic&#8217;s a nuclear weapons expert &#8212; he came to TNR seven years ago from Arms Control Today and wrote an excellent book, U.S. vs. Them, tracing the history of nuclear weapons policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}