Weekly Standard Wankathon
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January 2007
32 posts
Stares on North Korea and the Bomb
Paul Stares argues that multilateral security assurances might induce Pyongyang to agree to the dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear program: The diplomatic vehicle for such security assurances would be a United Nations-sponsored initiative to formally end the Korean War and…
What You Learn From Implosion Testing
That was one issue raised when I was discussing the latest supervillain alliance with various folks. A partial answer can be found here.
Super Villain Team Up
Is anything cooler than super-villains teaming up, like when Doctor Doom and Sub-Mariner settled into an uneasy alliance? No, obviously not. So, neither is it surprising that super-hack Con Coughlin alleges North Korea is helping Iran prepare for a nuclear…
An Assload of Debris
The fantastic photo is by Victor Minghir. FY-1 Charlie is now more than five hundred pieces of tracked debris (International Launch Designators 1999-025E – 1999-025WS). As a result, Leo Barhorst notes on the SeeSat Listserv, the Space Track catalogue has…
Greetings from India
I am in New Delhi, attending a Financial Services Volunteer Corps dialogue among Russian, Chinese, Indian and American participants. Our meeting kicked off on Friday, which just happened to coincide with a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin and…
Two Can Play at This Game
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Arak Heavy Water Plant. Paul has a wrap up of the Iranian bureaucratic machinery behind Iran’s decision to bar 38 French, British, German and Canadian nationals from serving as IAEA inspectors in Iran. Mark…
Does the DF-31 Suck or What?
In my forthcoming book, one of the little nagging questions I couldn’t answer was why the DF-31 solid-fueled ICBM (IRBM, harumph) was taking so damn long. I said: “In 1996, NAIC predicted CSS‐X‐10 (DF‐31) deployment ‘about the turn of the…
Trouble for Ahmadinejad
Is there actually something promising happening in this whole Iran nuclear drama? A number of recent indications suggest that Iranian President Ahmadinejad is in trouble, and his uncompromising stance on the nuclear program is being questioned within Iran. If Ahmadinejad…
Jordan seeks nuclear energy program
A while ago I blogged about countries in the Middle East who have recently expressed interest in pursuing peaceful nuclear energy programs. That list now also includes Jordan. Why should they go for nuclear energy? As King Abudllah II recently…