David Kearn is a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Managing the Atom Project and an associate professor in the Department of Government & Politics at St. John’s University in Queens, New York.

Two Atlantic Council papers on a Taiwan war suggested the US plan for nuclear strikes on China. They were met with backlash from some nuclear scholars, who worry such rhetoric only provokes Beijing.

After six months of investigating, federal officials said the company that was building a hangar at the Boise Airport engaged in an “appalling disregard of safety standards” before the hangar ...