Quick FYI – I have a new article out at Huffington Post: Taming the Gigaton Gorilla: Using Syria Diplomacy to Help Avoid U.S.-Russia Nuclear War. The article discusses the current diplomatic situation in Syria in terms of global catastrophic risk, in particular US-Russia nuclear war. The basic ideas are (1) the Syria situation should be approached mainly in terms of global catastrophic risk, instead of in terms of Syria itself, and (2) opportunities may exist for diplomacy regarding Syria to improve US-Russia relations so as to reduce nuclear war risk.