Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Over at DefenseTech, I’ve got a post comparing recent defector claims that North Korea has a one ton nuclear device with current US intelligence community assessments as read by Paul and yours truly. Late Update: I now have the full…
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The New York Times’ David Sanger reported that China was increasing the number of ships in the PLA Navy. That was a lie. Sanger reported on an ambitious Chinese naval build-up with this breathless warning: Today, PLA admirals have fewer…
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One year after Boeing began sticking missile defense interceptors in Alaska’s frozen tundra, Alex Fryer at the Seattle Times has a long article on the travails of the US Ballistic Missile Defense System. After three flight test failures, MDA doesn’t…
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I wrote a post at DefenseTech.org about the Kinetic Energy Cavity Penetrator Weapon, a novel conventional bunker buster concept developed by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. You can click on the image for a .pdf of the patent application.
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General Zhu Chenghu (below, right), Dean of the Defense College at the Chinese National Defense University (Guofang Daxue), told a group of Hong Kong journalists including the Financial Times’s Alexandra Harney that China might use nuclear weapons first in a…
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Greetings from Arms Control Wonk, Beijing Office. A Chinese General shoots off his mouth and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board releases the Report of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure Task Force. There is too much to do, and I…
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Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan (right, with the Il-iminator) is wrapping up a two day visit to Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il reportedly told Tang that “the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was the behest of President Kim Il Sung.” Kim also…
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Can’t anybody in the US intelligence community speak Chinese? Gregory Kulacki—the man who caught DIA repeating a hoax about a parasite microsatellite that was posted on a Chinese bulletin board—has caught another US intelligence entity just making shit up. Well,…
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What does Srebrenica have to do with arms control? Well arms control and other cooperative security approaches efficiently solve security dillemmas, freeing up resources for dealing with real security threats that kill people every day like civil conflict and terrorism.…
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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory comprises 192 lasers that will use inertial confinement to conduct nuclear weapons and fusion experiments. The project is the largest facility ever constructed at Livermore. For the technically inclined, three…
