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Staring at the curve representing the effectiveness of contact bursts againt hard and deeply buried targets, I noticed the RNEP was designed to defeat tunnels and underground facilities between 100-400 m. FIGURE 4.5 Effectiveness of contact bursts against some deeply…
Doobie Brother’s guitarist and “Missile Defense Analyst” Skunk Baxter—recently appointed to NASA’s Exploration Systems Advisory Committee—gets some love from the Wall Street Journal for his unconventional views on terrorism: “We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to…
Jonathan Medalia at the Congressional Research Service has written a very thorough treatment of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RW) program. Medalia quotes Raymond Jeanloz, chair of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, to describe the basic…
North Korea’s FM responded to the 13 May bilateral meeting between US and DPRK officials with a positive statement: The DPRK will continue to closely follow the U.S. attitude and its stand will be officially conveyed to the U.S. side…
I will participate in a panel discussion sponsored by Economists for Peace and Security entitled Missile Defense, Space and the NPT. The discussion will be held from 3-5 at the Mission of Iceland to the United Nations. Back tomorrow.
Peter Baker of the Washington Post fetes Deputy National Security Advisor Jack Dyer (J.D.) Crouch II for not being Doug Feith: “We sort of decided that J.D. was the one we would take a harder view of,” said one Senate…
One of Arms Control Wonk’s regular readers also turns out to be pretty handy with photoshop. Here is the first of what I expect to be many occasional cartoons by Mr. “Significant Quantity”:
Daniel Sneider of the San Jose Mercury-News observes similarities between recent allegations of nuclear test preparations near Kilju and the 1998 revelation that North Korea was constructing an underground nuclear reactor and reprocessing facility near Kumchang-ri—a claim that turned out…
Advocates of the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator often emphasize the existence of more than 10,000 Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBTs) to suggest that a military requirement exists for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. NIPP’s Eric Miller, for instance, argues:…
It should be noted that last week’s secret US- North Korea discussions didn’t come entirely out of nowhere. In fact, North Korea has recently been suggesting such talks. While Pyongyang obviously backed away from its demands that SecState Rice apologize…
