Thats me — along with Gregory Kulacki, Lisbeth Gronlund and Stephen Young from the Union of Concerned Scientists — standing under a statue of Deng Jiaxian, who designed China’s first nuclear weapon. Oh, and apologies for not blogging this Syrian…
The Economist (sorry, no bylines) states that China “is deploying six road-mobile, solid-fueled (which means quick to launch) intercontinental DF-31s …” The Economist does not provide a citation, but six is an interesting number. (I don’t think it is from…
Behold, the second installment of the series on China’s SSBNs. This took a while, mainly because I wanted to reread Tom Stefanick’s Strategic Antisubmarine Warfare and Naval Strategy. It’s a classic. Anyway, the bottom line is that I doubt China’s…
I just love this illustration, by Istvan Banyai, that accompanied Keir Lieber and Daryl Press’ article in The Atlantic. This is the first of a three part series on issues surrounding China’s newest ballistic missile submarine. The other posts will…
Hans Kristensen is getting a solid, well-deserved round of credit for spotting China’s new ballistic missile subarmine—the Jin class or Type 094 SSBN—sitting along side a dock in Google Earth. (Here is a .kmz file) It looks like a positive…
Yesterday, I hosted John Harvey, Director of Policy Planning at NNSA, here at New America. John was a good sport—what we planned to be a 25 person brown bag lunch turned into a 75 person event that will air on…
Brad Roberts has a civil, but largely negative review of my book in the latest edition of Arms Control Today. It points out some things that I could have done better. But one thing really annoys me. Roberts says that…
Michael Gordon in the New York Times—disclaimer: I am quoted—details the Bush Administration’s decision to say nothing to Chinese to discourage their January 2007 ASAT test: What administration officials did not say is that as the Chinese were preparing to…
This is a slide from an August 2005 presentation by Colonel Rick Patenaude, chief of the deterrence and strike division within Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), entitled, Prompt Global Strike Update. I’ve posted the slide, becuase Patenaude reveals something very…
Greetings from Geneva! I have to give a talk on ASAT weapons here at the UNIDIR conference, Celebrating the Space Age: 50 Years of Technology, 40 Years of the Outer Space Treaty. My talk will center of the role that…
