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Jeffrey Lewis
Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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State Won't Clear Nuke Strategy Paper
Apparently, Princess Sparklepony did not and will not sign the follow-on white paper to Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RRW. At least that is what Elaine Grossman reports U.S.…
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Anybody Want To Be My Intern?
The Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Program is always looking for interns. You should more or less follow the guidelines here, but email the package to Ms. Katherine Tiedemann tiedemann [at] newamerica.net The most important thing is to have a good…
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Atomic Topiary
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to size US nuclear forces, whether to some number of targets, or capabilities or with some other metric. (Hint: some other metric.) More on that soon, but I wanted to share a…
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More on that TE rollover at Minot
A former Malmstrom missileer writes to say that 3-4 TE rollovers over 25-30 years “seems about right, it’s definitely not something that happens every day.” From what I recall of TE emplacements (I was a missileer so not really an…
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Another Foul-Up At Minot
This time, a truck carrying a MMIII booster overturned on a gravel road in North Dakota: A truck carrying a rocket booster for an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile tipped over on a northwestern North Dakota road on Thursday,…
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Japnese Bust Export Violator
Sorry I’ve been so absent lately. I’ve just been really, really, really busy. Anyway, James and Andy have done a wonderful job in the interim. The Japanese have raided yet another business — Horkos, based un-ironically in Hiroshima Prefecture —…
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Trey Day
I asked Marc Schanz, journo-buddy of mine, to send along his impressions of Obering’s briefing the other day. I thought I would get some wry observations. Instead, I got a serious piece of defense journalism. Anyway, apparently Obering freaked when…
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4 Aegis Ships to Defend NATO
Gosh, I am going to miss ol’ Trey Obering when he retires in January. Ok, no I won’t. He gave an outbrief today that, I hear, was nothing of the sort — just the same tired hat-in-hand for MDA routine.…
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DH-10
I have now had several conversations about China’s newest cruise missile, the DH-10. The conversations all stem from the fact that people mistakenly believe that the 2008 edition of Chinese Military Power indicates the PLA deploys the DH-10 armed with…