Topol Wonkporn
A little hot Topol action to spice up Sunday. Pavel Podvig’s Russian Strategic Forces blog has been extensively covering the Topol deployment
Jeffrey Lewis
Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Will Treasury Scuttle Six Party Process?
Chris Nelson in the national treasure that is The Nelson Report has the crucial backstory on how Administration hardliners may be fighting efforts to lift Treasury sanctions on North Korea’s “licit” funds as part of an effort to scuttle the…
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Britain To Replace Trident
Parliament voted 409-161 to support “the Government’s decisions, as set out in the White Paper The Future of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Deterrent, to take the steps necessary to maintain the UK’s minimum strategic nuclear deterrent beyond the life of…
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What Disarmament Looks Like
Jofi Joseph—now foreign relations adviser for Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D-Penn.)—pens an fanatistic article in Democracy Journal that—to my mind—nails why the Bush Administration “can’t disarm Iran.” States make the “strategic decision” over a period of years, not—as many senior…
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Taepodong Model
Yeah, that’s a Taepodong model. Geoff Forden and I have been making different sorts of models of the TD-1 and TD-2, but that is another story. (Hat tip to reader RH.) Update The Robot Economist is a sick, funny bastard.
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Levin to Bob n' Condi on NORK HEU
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, asks SECSTATE and SECDEF about that incredible, shrinking North Korean HEU program including questions about the basis for assessing that a large-scale centrifuge facility was under construction and whether…
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START Talking
Remember how the intelligence community warned that it won’t be able to verify the Moscow Treaty after the START inspection protocol lapses? The Bush Administration, Nicholas Kralev in the Washington Times, wants to keep it that way: The Bush administration…
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More On Disablement
Top of the reactor core at the Yongbyon 25 MW Reactor, Photo taken May 1992, courtesy of the IAEA (via ISIS). The other week, I noted the odd appearance of the word “disablement” in the vocabulary of various State Department…
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Size Matters
I am having technical trouble with this post. The whole thing is cross posted at Danger Room. Well, after American negotiators Chris Hill and Joe DeTrani admitted that earlier estimates of the North Korean nuclear program were exaggerated, the Office…
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The Incredible Shrinking HEU Program
So, Joe DeTrani and Chris Hill admit that the intel on North Korea’s enrichment program is sketchy and all hell breaks loose … (Read the full text of their testimonies). Giacomo, Sanger and Broad, Kessler, and Landay all have stories.…