A Return to Nuclear Testing
by | November 3, 2025 | No Comments
Donald Trump directed “the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” with other countries. The Department of War doesn’t test nuclear weapons, the Department of Energy does all the time in lots of different ways. Some people worried this meant a return to explosive testing, others seemed to think …
Guest Post – Always Be Casting: An Estimate of Iranian Solid Rocket Motor Production
by | September 29, 2025 | No Comments
This guest post is by Carl Parkin. Jon Gambrell has a story with the Associated Press on the reconstitution of Iran’s missile program in the wake of the 12-Day War. That story is based in part on this report. Introduction At the outset of Operation Rising Lion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu justified Israel’s attack …
A Firstful of Interceptors: ABM Performance During True Promise II
by | September 10, 2025 | No Comments
Introduction This is the second in a series of blog posts I’m writing on True Promise II, the October 2024 Iranian missile attack against Israel. This post focuses on the U.S. and Israeli missile defense efforts, building on my previous post on TP II as well as the work and methodology outlined by Steve Fetter …
Pentagon Blocks Ukraine Strikes
by | September 2, 2025 | No Comments
Alex Ward and others at the Wall Street Journal reported on the details of a Pentagon review process that has halted Ukraine’s ability to conduct long-range strikes into Russia with ATACMs, Storm Shadow and other systems that need US targeting data. Jeffrey and Aaron talk about what we already knew, what we didn’t, and what …
Ninety Percent Of The Time, The Missile Works Every Time: Iranian Missile Failure Rates During True Promise II
by Sam Lair | August 22, 2025
Fly Burevestnik Fly!
by ACW Podcast | August 22, 2025
Mad Max MANPADS in Yemen
by Sam Lair | August 21, 2025
Thaqib-1 Anti-Air Missiles, In This Climate!? Potential Limitations of Houthi Ingenuity
by Seth Hosford | August 21, 2025
Russia Goes Random: Iskander-M's Ballistic Missile Defense Evasion
by Seth Hosford | August 13, 2025
Iran’s Pathway to the Bomb
by ACW Podcast | July 13, 2025
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Donald Trump directed “the Department of War to start testing our
Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis” with other countries. The
Department of War doesn’t test nuclear weapons, the Department of
Energy does all the time in lots of different ways. Some people
worried this meant a return to explosive testing, others seemed to
think it was about delivery systems. Subsequent statements by the
Vice President and the Secretary of Defense didn’t clarify things.
Aaron and Jeffrey sit down to try to make some sense of it all.
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