From the moment that Russia unveiled its nuclear-powered cruise missile, I was referring people to my neighbor up in Santa Cruz, Gregg Herken. (West Coast, Best Coast!) Gregg is one our finest historians of the Cold War and he just…
The debate over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) can be pretty tiresome. Its not even a debate, so much as it is an exercise in political mobilization. For the most part, opponents trying whip up opposition are content to…
We were surprised by the recent debate about whether North Korea can domestically produce UDMH. Working with my colleagues at CNS, we have translated several North Korean scientific papers documenting North Korea’s domestic production of UDMH and identified at least…
Last week was pretty awesome — we had a huge “new tools” conference here at Monterey with all kinds of cool space and tech companies like Airbus. We have a great relationship with Airbus, which made available a pair of…
There are a large number of us who are deeply uncomfortable with the final text of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, particularly as it relates to safeguards. Some supporters of the agreement have noted that it seems…
Pssssst! Want to see South Korea’s missile test site?
I made a thing to help compare the Hwasong-10 and Hwasong-12 missiles. A lot of people are rushing out their analysis. We’d like to get it right before publishing. I am old fashioned like that.
High-resolution photographs of the airframe for North Korea’s Pukguksong submarine-launched ballistic missile have a surprise. The airframe appears be wound filament, not the simple metal airframes we’ve seen on North Korea’s space launchers. That opens up a lot of possibilities…
My friend Paul Kerr — the original second blogger at Arms Control Wonk — has taken time from his day job to write an essay that focuses on the enduring value of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s prohibition on “activities which could contribute to…
Last week, Geoff Brumfiel at NPR wrote a story about my research, with Veli-Pekka Kivimäki, showing that Russia was now deploying the Iskander missile system to Kaliningrad. This is the longer analysis that outlines the evidence that Russia is putting the…
