I was just in New York for a few days and heard some very interesting things about the coming trainwreck at the RevCon. But I wasn’t allowed to repeat any of them! Lucky us, Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova has written another “Notes from…
Intelligence sources have told Bill Gertz at the Washington Free Beacon and Anthony Capaccio and Sam Kim at Bloomberg that North Korea tested its KN-11 submarine launched ballistic missile from a submersible barge, not a Sinpo-class submarine, and that the…
Michael Krepon noticed that we’ve been silent on the issue of the ongoing NPT Review Conference and had an inspired idea — why not ask my colleague Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova to send us her thoughts from New York, where she is attending.…
Since I’ve already inflicted my thoughts on the Iran deal over at Foreign Policy.com, I am happy that my friend Jofi Joseph has agreed to share his here at the blog. Pleasant Surprises and Grudging Disappointments Jofi Joseph Jeffrey has…
I just wanted to write down a brief explanation about the documents that exist describing the Iran “deal”. There seems to be some confusion about what they are and what they are not. They are a deal in the sense…
I have a new column at ForeignPolicy.com about the 1987 Institute for Defense Analyses report, IDA Memorandum, Report M-317 Critical Technology Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations. The report is now widely available online, but copies have been floating around…
I’ve got a new column coming out on the allegation that Iran has a covert enrichment site in the Tehran suburbs called “Lavizan-3.” Along with Paul-Anton Krüger, I tracked down someone who actually visited the site recently. It is precisely…
As fate would have it, I will be in DC for a talk about my new IISS Adelphi book, Paper Tigers: China’s Nuclear Posture. (IISS is being unbelievably civil about the fact that I am doing the talk at another…
In 1958, the US Air Force lost a nuclear weapon off the coast of Georgia, near Tybee Island. The weapon is thought to be irretrievably lost, despite a brief glimmer of hope in 2004. So, I was pretty surprised to…
I’ve been trying to keep track of the really impressive rate of missile testing in the DPRK over the past year plus now — not least because I was the only weirdo for a long time arguing that North…
