Apparently, Poland gets a PAC-3 battery and US personnel as a tripwire, er defensive measure in exchange for hosting the European midcourse interceptor site: A senior Pentagon official described an unusual part of this quid pro quo: an American Patriot…
Wow, so I met Howard Morland today. That was pretty awesome. James Nagelberg wanted me to blog the panel on What the Future Holds for U.S. and Russian Nuclear Weapons. As I have no rational basis on which to make…
Jonathan Landay pens a great story about the internal debate between Administration officials seeking a looser START inspections regime and intelligence agencies who kinda like the data they get: Alarmed by the stress on the limited fleet of U.S. spy…
A little hot Topol action to spice up Sunday. Pavel Podvig’s Russian Strategic Forces blog has been extensively covering the Topol deployment
I am in New Delhi, attending a Financial Services Volunteer Corps dialogue among Russian, Chinese, Indian and American participants. Our meeting kicked off on Friday, which just happened to coincide with a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin and…
The Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Capabilities—co-chaired by Johnny Foster and Larry Welch—has released a hilariously retro report on nuclear weapons. Concerned citizens should be aware, the authors warn, of “an entrenched set of views held by an…
Hey folks, sorry for the long absence. Xiamen is fantastic … much more exciting than the blue glow of my laptop. What little time I’ve spent online has been sunk on my book, a forthcoming article and, you know, managing…
Phew! From the “good to know” category. The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces assure us that the extra second being added to 2005 (leap second) is no problem: 28/12/2005 13:20 MOSOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – The extra second being added…
Pavel Podvig dropped by CISSM to make a presentation entitled, Dangers of Accidental Ballistic Missile Launch. Pavel picked up the fascinating and counterintuitive argument that the United States shouldn’t help repair Russia’s early warning system (pictured at right), which Pavel…
CISSM is hosting Alexei Arbatov, Senior Research Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss his paper (with co-author Major General Vladimir Dvorkin, Ret.) on Revising Nuclear Deterrence. Among other things, Arbatov was deputy chair of the defense…
