Iran’s solid-propellant SLV program is alive and kicking
by | February 14, 2020 | No Comments
If you are a friend of the blog, you might have heard of Iran’s program to develop a solid propellant space launcher, the relationship of the space launch program to Iran’s missile ambitions and the 2011 explosion that wiped out most of the personnel associated with it. To make a long story short, at some …
Where Are We? And Where Do We go from Here?
by | February 9, 2020 | 7 Comments
Lyric of the Week: “There’ll be no healing from the art of double dealing. Armageddon’s back in town again” — Patterson Hood, Drive-By Truckers, The Unraveling album Note to Readers: Here’s what I had to say to the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters on January 30th: We’re not doing well, obviously. But …
Possible ICBM Modernization Underway at Sundian
by | February 5, 2020 | No Comments
This article was co-authored with Decker Eveleth. Decker Eveleth is a junior at Reed College studying International Comparative Policy Studies. He sometimes moonlights as the disembodied head of an Iranian weapons designer. China may be modernizing some very old ICBM sites. An interesting development has taken place at Sundian, historically a PLARF ICBM launch area, …
NATO Expansion and the Great Unraveling of Arms Control
by Michael Krepon | February 3, 2020
Political Reflections from the Serengeti
by Michael Krepon | January 27, 2020
Investigating PS752 with Open-Source Intelligence
by ACW Podcast | January 22, 2020
Iran’s Missile Strikes in Iraq
by ACW Podcast | January 14, 2020
Iran's Fifth Step
by ACW Podcast | January 7, 2020
The Travails of Nuclear-Armed States
by Michael Krepon | January 5, 2020
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After the Iranian ballistic missile raid on U.S. forces in Iraq, the IRGC appears to have accidentally shot down a Ukrianian airliner flying out of Tehran. The Iranian government took about 3 days to admit that it was shot down, initially denying that it was shot down.
Prior to the admission, the Arms Control Wonk Podcast slack channel jumped on the case and started a collaborative open-source intelligence effort to figure out what actually had happened and if Iran’s denial held water.
Friend of the pod Patrick Kerley joins Jeffrey to talk about the Arms Control Wonk Podcast slack channel’s collaborative OSINT efforts at tracking down details of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, including tracking flight paths, pulling satellite imagery, and locating videos based on sound cues.
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