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Over at DefenseTech, I’ve got a post comparing recent defector claims that North Korea has a one ton nuclear device with current US intelligence community assessments as read by Paul and yours truly. Late Update: I now have the full…
The New York Times’ David Sanger reported that China was increasing the number of ships in the PLA Navy. That was a lie. Sanger reported on an ambitious Chinese naval build-up with this breathless warning: Today, PLA admirals have fewer…
Wade Boese enters the race with an excellent piece on the US opposition to FMCT negotiations. Wade wrote about the FMCT/CD goat rodeo a few months back, but here he succinctly summarizes how China called the administration’s bluff: The United…
One year after Boeing began sticking missile defense interceptors in Alaska’s frozen tundra, Alex Fryer at the Seattle Times has a long article on the travails of the US Ballistic Missile Defense System. After three flight test failures, MDA doesn’t…
These probably won’t help, but just in case. Today’s quiz is on who is making it easier for terrorists to get the bomb. 1. Which country is currently known to be exporting highly enriched uranium, in other words, bomb-grade nuclear…
I wrote a post at DefenseTech.org about the Kinetic Energy Cavity Penetrator Weapon, a novel conventional bunker buster concept developed by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. You can click on the image for a .pdf of the patent application.
General Zhu Chenghu (below, right), Dean of the Defense College at the Chinese National Defense University (Guofang Daxue), told a group of Hong Kong journalists including the Financial Times’s Alexandra Harney that China might use nuclear weapons first in a…
Greetings from Arms Control Wonk, Beijing Office. A Chinese General shoots off his mouth and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board releases the Report of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure Task Force. There is too much to do, and I…
Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan (right, with the Il-iminator) is wrapping up a two day visit to Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il reportedly told Tang that “the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was the behest of President Kim Il Sung.” Kim also…
Can’t anybody in the US intelligence community speak Chinese? Gregory Kulacki—the man who caught DIA repeating a hoax about a parasite microsatellite that was posted on a Chinese bulletin board—has caught another US intelligence entity just making shit up. Well,…
