Nuclear Test Sites Are Too Damn Busy
by September 23, 2023 | No Comments
|Errors in Analysis of the Hwasong-18
by August 20, 2023 | 4 Comments
|Errors in Postol’s Analysis of the Hwasong-18 Daniel Allen, Madeline Berzak, Michael Duitsman, Decker Eveleth, John Ford, Sam Lair, Jeffrey Lewis, Tricia White Key points: 🚀🚀🚀 Introduction Ted Postol’s analysis of the Hwasong-18 is marred by significant factual inaccuracies. Many of these inaccuracies would have been caught by an analyst carefully looking at the totality …
Kim Jong Un’s Excellent Adventure
by August 17, 2023 | No Comments
|Sam Lair joins the podcast to talk about Kim Jong Un’s recent whirlwind tour of the North Korean Defense Industrial Base with Jeffrey and Scott. If you’re into missiles, geolocation, and machine tools (and, if you listen to this podcast, you probably are), you’re going to want to tune in. Sam and Jeffrey have been …
Oppenheimer
by August 15, 2023 | No Comments
|Jeffrey is joined by the illustrious Kelsey Atherton to discuss Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer, as well as the history and legacy of the titular man himself. Kelsey and Jeffrey dive into the choice to focus on Oppenheimer’s own security legacy and bypass the direct and indirect horrors affected upon the Congolese miners, New Mexicans, and Japanese …
Kelsey Atherton's Barbenheimer
by Scott LaFoy | August 15, 2023
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by ACW Podcast | August 5, 2023
SinpoSatBot Post Mortem
by Scott LaFoy | July 20, 2023
What the F*** Do They Think the Russians are Going to Shoot at Them?!
by ACW Podcast | July 18, 2023
Failure to Launch
by ACW Podcast | July 6, 2023
Shangri-la Dialogue with Ankit Panda
by ACW Podcast | June 12, 2023
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Sam Lair joins the podcast to talk about Kim Jong Un’s recent whirlwind tour of the North Korean Defense Industrial Base with Jeffrey and Scott.
If you’re into missiles, geolocation, and machine tools (and, if you listen to this podcast, you probably are), you’re going to want to tune in.
Sam and Jeffrey have been mapping out the DPRK DIB, including plant managers, machine tool lineages, production lines, and evolutions over time. Kim’s visit to these plants, and the accompanying KCNA imagery storm, unlocked a trove of new information about where nuclear delivery systems are produced and maintained, and updated our ideas for how big the arsenal may be.
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