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There was an enormous explosion in North Korea. “There was no indication that was a nuclear event of any kind. Exactly what it was, we’re not sure,” our Secretary of State Colin Powell told ABC’s This Week. Powell added that…
Arms Control Wonk will be returning home to Augustana College to participate in an alumni panel entitled, “Exploring the World Through Service and Self: Alumni Speak on Finding the Profit in Non-profit.“ I’ve been asked to reflect on the following:…
You might be asking, “Why haven’t you been posting lately, Mr. Arms Control Wonk?” And I would say “That’s Dr. Arms Control Wonk to you, sucker.” I successfully defended and finalized the manuscipt (China no longer sings the CTBT). At…
It slices, it dices, it detects missile launches. Congress slashed the Space Based Radar program budget (- $250 M) in favor of funding the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), which detects missile launches. Now, the Defense Science Board releases a…
Is it just me, or is The Economist suffering some serious cognitive dissonance about the Bush Administration? A recent editorial–“Don’t trust, don’t verify,” (September 2, 2004)–demonstrates the debilitating effect of this ambivalence. Talking about a ban on the production of…
Damn. Just finished Lyle Goldstein and William Murray’s “Undersea Dragons: China’s Maturing Submarine Force,” (International Security, Spring 2004, pp.161-196). It contains what I would call several factual errors. This requires some additional research, but some things are awfully suspicious. For…
CISAC has made audio files of its August 11 Seminar Post-Cold War U. S. Nuclear Strategy:A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground available on their website. Representative David Hobson (R-OH) just takes the piss out of the nuclear weapons…
Bill Gertz reports Rummy’s every word with the enthusiasm of an eromenos: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld took a jab at critics of U.S. missile defense efforts during a speech last week in Huntsville, Ala. He noted his cordial discussions…
I am writing a piece for Arms Control Today on foreign counterspace systems. The mandate was to summarize foreign counterspace capabilities to accompany an article being written by Michael Krepon. The more I look, the more I realize that the…
China and Russia submitted a pair of non-papers to the Conference on Disarmament in speeches by Ambassadors Leonid A. Skotnikov (Russia) and Hu Xiaodi (China). The two speeches had a de facto division of labor, with Skotnikov talking substance and…
