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Momentarily lost in the hullaballoo over North Korea’s probable failed nuclear test is the last state to test a nuclear weapon as well as lie about the yield: India. Oh, they are going to love that statement on the Bharat…
ACA just posted an analysis from Richard L. Garwin and Frank N. von Hippel on the DPRK nuclear test. It contains some evidence that I don’t think has been made public before. Here’s an example: …it is not surprising that…
Arkin takes on a massive straw-figure in a post which says something about North Korea and nuclear weapons. Allow me to paraphrase: Unnamed “Ambulance Chasers of the Apocalypse” point to the dangers of a nuclear-armed North Korea – as well…
Peter Zimmerman and I have the cover article in Foreign Policy magazine (subscription only), arguing that nuclear weapons are a bargain for the large, sophisticated terrorist organization. We basically asked, were we a terrorist group, how would we do it…
Hey, I somehow missed that we have a new national space policy. (Unclassified version). Last I checked, the thing was in Draft 30-something —30-something, by the way: not hyperbole—and another victim of the totally dysfunctional interagency process. Anyway, the key…
I was re-reading some ACT pieces last night and came across a gem from SecState Rice this past July on US North Korea policy. Here’s the quote in full: I just want to say to China that the responsibility that…
Regular readers will notice that Jane Vaynman has been guest blogging for the last couple of weeks. Well, she hasn’t been guest blogging. Jane—who is spending the year in Moscow on a Fulbright—is replacing Paul, who will be starting his…
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a very short statement confirming that the North Korean test was nuclear. Thom Shanker and David Sanger’s article in the New York Times says that US intelligence has concluded that the…
Normally I don’t bother with Gertz, but this is priceless: Nuclear volleyball Intelligence photographs of North Korea’s nuclear test site showed technicians playing volleyball this week near the tunnel where a nuclear device was unsuccessfully set off on Sunday. The…
The Carnegie Moscow Center held a discussion yesterday on the 123 Agreement, which would allow for nuclear cooperation between Russia and the US. The presentation was given by Robert Einhorn of CSIS, and there will be a summary on the…
