It's Debatable explores merits of Mutual Assured Destruction policy - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Rick Rosen and Charles Moster take opposite sides on whether the military's reliance on the threat of mutual annihilation actually prevents nuclear war or just sets the stage for one. Rosen brings a mix of academic and military credibility to the debate, having retired as a professor from the Texas Tech University School of Law after serving as a U.S. Army colonel.

Moster argues from a different angle. He founded the Moster Law Firm, headquartered in Lubbock with additional offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and Midland, and has built a side career writing about artificial intelligence, futurism, and the law. That background shapes how he approaches a strategy built in the 1950s and 60s, asking whether it holds up against modern threats.

For Lubbock readers, the column offers a chance to see two people with deep ties to the city argue a global policy question without leaving the Avalanche-Journal's opinion page. It's the kind of local debate series that turns a Texas Tech law professor and a Lubbock attorney into stand-ins for a much bigger argument playing out in Washington and Moscow.