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While the usual suspects fantasize in their collective right-wing whack-shack about a North Korean ballistic missile test, a working GMD, etc., it would be useful to take a look at what North Korea’s MFA said 1 June. The fact that…
The Flat Earth Society has a foothold in the Wall Street Journal editorial page: It’s possible we’ll wake up to the news that Pyongyang has tested the long-range ballistic missile that is fully fueled and which U.S. satellites have monitored…
Victoria Samson here, commandeering ACW for a bit (per Dr. Wonk’s approval, of course) to talk a bit about the activation of the U.S. missile defense system. According to the WashTimes’ Bill Gertz, the U.S. military is getting all systems…
I’ve been a little reluctant to write about the preparations for the Taepodong 2 launch. The press—especially the Japanese press—is filled with a huge amount of disinformation that really complicates things. Japanese news sources reported that North Korean television told…
Friends know that I love shopping for used books. A few of my friends share my obsession, notably physicist Götz Neuneck (and, yes, that is a heavy metal umlaut). By far, my greatest used book pick up was a 1962…
I am in Sedona, Arizona through Wednesday, as a guest of the Stanley Foundation. As you can see from the picture of my Casita snuggled against the mountains, Sedona is cold and overcast. Sometimes, it is so tough to be…
Michael Katz Hyman sends along this brilliantly funny manual, NSRB DOC. 130 Survival Under Atomic Attack (1950). Remember kids, “Beyond 2 miles, the explosion will cause practically no deaths at all.” The atomic age inspired all sorts of “you can…
A couple of weeks ago, Judy Miller made a passing reference to “a ‘Lessons Learned’ paper for an arms-control newsletter” written by Ambassador Donald Mahley, Senior WMD Representative in Libya. I was like, what Lessons Learned paper? So was Kerr.…
Christopher Stone, “a space/missile officer with Air Force Space Command-Reserve Component”, has written an article in the Space Review blaming “certain circles” and “political” reasons for the lack of orbital strike weapons. Stone omitted, as a reason, the laws of…
Hans Blix came out against the US-India nuclear deal, kind of—according to a press release from Ed Markey’s (D-MA) office: “I am concerned about the impact on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. These concerns could be met if India, Pakistan,…
