Kim Jong Un’s Early Valentine’s Day Present
by December 10, 2024 | No Comments
|Looks like Valentine’s Day came early this winter for Kim Jong Un. The North Koreans are significantly expanding the February 11 Plant (Feb 11) outside of Hamhung. We think we have identified a new missile assembly building under construction, an effort to increase the throughput of the plant. This post is elaborating on a piece …
IAEA Safeguards and Nuclear Disarmament Verification
by November 28, 2024 | No Comments
|Last month I published a journal article on this subject, part of a long-term policy research project to explore the concept of irreversibility in nuclear disarmament as called for under, inter alia, the 2000 NPT Review Conference Final Document. This project is underway at a consortium steered by King’s College London; it includes the Verification …
The Oreshnik IRBM
by November 22, 2024 | No Comments
|Russia launched an experimental, offensive missile into Ukraine, aimed at the PA Pivdenmash (former Yuzhmash) factory. This is a new world of missile combat, as this looks to be the first use of an IRBM (though not at IRBM ranges) and possibly MIRV (though conventional!) in combat. Jeffrey and Aaron talk about Russia’s new Oreshnik …
Fred Kaplan and A Capital Calamity
by October 20, 2024 | No Comments
|The legendary Fred Kaplan joins Jeffrey to talk about his brand new novel, A Capital Calamity. Fred and Jeffrey talk through the Fred’s experiences in nuclear strategy and the influences on his new novel, A Capital Calamity, from JFK’s EXCOMM tapes, the MX basing debate, and the Jane Austin meets Dr. Strangelove comedy of DC …
The Big Honking Hyunmoo-V
by ACW Podcast | October 20, 2024
A Chinese ICBM Test in the Pacific
by ACW Podcast | October 20, 2024
Iran's October Missile Raid
by ACW Podcast | October 2, 2024
Busting the Burevestnik
by ACW Podcast | September 18, 2024
Turkey's Nuclear Turbines
by Mark Hibbs | September 16, 2024
TYPHON, FATHER OF MONSTERS
by ACW Podcast | June 27, 2024
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Founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Lewis, Arms Control Wonk was the first blog on arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation. It has since been a home to everything that is "too wonky or obscene" for publication about nuclear weapons. The site now features thirty-plus contributors with an archive of over three thousand articles.
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Russia launched an experimental, offensive missile into Ukraine, aimed at the PA Pivdenmash (former Yuzhmash) factory. This is a new world of missile combat, as this looks to be the first use of an IRBM (though not at IRBM ranges) and possibly MIRV (though conventional!) in combat.
Jeffrey and Aaron talk about Russia’s new Oreshnik missile, what it is, its relationship to the RS-26 Rubezh IRBM/ICBM/treaty-skirting missile, the Typhon-Oreshnik European strike dyad, and the looming new Euromissile crisis.
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