Kangzhuang & DF-31
I’ve read Chinese Military Power and I don’t agree that it says China increased the size of its nuclear force by 1/3. When I do the math, I get basically 110-160 warheads — about the same size as last year…
March 2008
23 posts
It's That Time of the Year Again…
Readers, we have failed you. From 4 February to 7 March one of the Wonk’s favourite events in the entire nuclear calendar took place and we didn’t even comment on it… yes, that’s right, Miss Atom 2008. We can but…
2008 Nonproliferation Challenge
How’d you like to make 10 Large writing about nonproliferation? Well, let me introduce you to the Doreen and Jim McElvany 2008 Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest: The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and The Nonproliferation Review are pleased to…
Who Debunked the UEP?
I was on a panel today at a CNS lunch to discuss Hugh Gusterson’s article in The Nonproliferation Review, entitled Paranoid Potbellied Stalinist Gets Nuclear Weapons: How the U.S. Print Media Cover North Korea. As you might imagine, Hugh is…
Where is Inshas?
I’m currently doing some reading on nuclear power in the Middle East. As is my (and many Wonk readers) wont I like trying to find the places I read about on Google Earth. Finding Inshas, Egypt’s nuclear research centre, has…
BBC Poll on Iran Nukes
The headline from the press release of a new BBC World Service poll reads Declining Support for Tough Measures against Iran’s Nuclear Program: Global Poll. This poll is flawed and should be interpreted with caution. First, some background. The poll…
More on the Heinonen Presentation
A week or so ago, the Washington Post printed a story by Joby Warrick and Colum Lynch about Olli Heinonen’s briefing to the IAEA Board of Governors on weaponization work in Iran. Warrick and Lynch, apparently, had the notes of…
FOGBANK
Rob Edwards in New Scientist writes about a material called FOGBANK, which is used in US nuclear weapons such as the W76. (Ian Sample in the Guardian also picked it up.) Edwards’s article contains some speculation on the use of…
Arms control literature: A one stop shop
As part of the Wonk’s public service role, let me bring to your attention an outstanding resource letter, “Physics and Society: Nuclear Arms Control”, that was published by Alex Glaser and Zia Mian in the January edition of the American…
721 Reports
DNI has posted 721 Reports from 2005 and 2006. January 1 – December 31, 2006: Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions January 1 – December 31, 2005:…