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Catherine Dill

Writing on ACW 2015–2021 · 26 posts · On the podcast: 3 episodes

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Missile Defense Intercept Test at Korla?

Over the weekend many residents in Xinjiang Province posted pictures on Chinese social media sites of a mysterious event in the sky. Rather quickly online commentators began to speculate that this event was a missile defense test from the Korla…

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C3: Nuclear Command, Control, Cooperation

Earlier this year Bruce Blair kindly loaned us a copy of an important body of work in the field, C3: Nuclear Command, Control, Cooperation, by Valery E. Yarynich. We digitized it (thanks to two graduate research assistants) and have put…

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The Jinkouhe Gaseous Diffusion Plant is hot!

Much to my dismay, I find that I’m still catching up on reading from the summer.  In August, Hui Zhang published a new report on China’s uranium enrichment capacity, and he makes a wonderful identification of a new civilian centrifuge…

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2nd Artillery Missiles at the 2015 China V-Day Parade

As we move into autumn (not that seasonal change means much here in temperate and beautiful Northern California), I am trying to move into a regular posting schedule. Up first is a rather short post adding to the hot takes…

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Korla Missile Test Complex Revisited

Catherine here.  For the past year, Jeffrey and I have been looking at China’s Korla Missile Test Complex in Xinjiang, which is where we believe China conducts test launches of its hit-to-kill interceptor.  Jeffrey put up a brief post about…

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Greetings!

Greetings ACW readers! I’m Catherine Dill, the newest contributor around here. I am a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. I dabble in research and training related…