It’s Not A Rocket
No, it’s not a rocket. An Israeli television station has published a number of satellite images of a launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center near Semnan in Iran that purport to show a new Iranian missile. One problem:…
Jeffrey Lewis
Red Bird Express
Some time ago, I came across a funny story — did you know Taiwan tried to disguise cruise missile deployments as delivery trucks? Guess how well it worked? Well, you’re reading about it here, aren’t you? The story was actually…
Carnegie RFP on Disruptive Tech
Ok, so I am biased. The Carnegie Corporation of New York has always been a supportive funder for the arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation field. The whole staff is filled with people who’ve been nice to me. And Carl Robichaud…
Ships of the Desert
I have long wanted Allen Thomson to take up blogging. Allen is one of those old guys — you know, the kind who have forgotten more than you’ll ever know, but aren’t well known from the DC rubber chicken circuit…
Mauger on China’s Hypersonic Test
AS James Acton, Catherine Dill and I prepared our “Crashing Tiger, Hidden Hotspring” post, one of my students, Philippe Mauger, made a number of important observations including offering a possible identification of the rocket engine found among the debris. I…
Crashing Glider, Hidden Hotspring
Don’t miss our podcast on the failed Chinese and US hypersonic launches! Analyzing China’s August 7, 2014 Hypersonic Glider Test James Acton, Catherine Dill and Jeffrey Lewis September 3, 2014 By a lake in an Inner Mongolian desert, about 200…
Geolocating the Toksa Launch
Give it a second to load the map. As I suspected, some of North Korea’s recent “MLRS” tests are more likely tests of the solid-fueled SS-21 Toksa SRBM. The missile in question is an extended-range SS-21, that may eventually be…
Korla Missile Test Complex
I have a new column at Foreign Policy, as well as a podcast with Aaron Stein, on China’s testing of hit-to-kill technologies against satellites and ballistic missiles. I’ve been trying to figure out where Arms Control Wonk fits in between…
Smerch or Toksa?
Well, I am off to Paris. But before I go, I want to mention something that is puzzling me. You undoubtedly noticed that Rodong Sinum (Korean|English) carried a story about Kim Jong Un attending test launches of “newly developed ultra-precision tactical…
Oryx Blog on DPRK Arms Exports
One of the nice things about the silliness that ensued following my pair of articles for 38North on the North Korean Kh-35 is that I discovered a bunch of new people doing open source work. We’ve known about the Arkenstone,…
