Bang!
CNN has more video of the Yongbyon Cooling Tower being destroyed — although most of it comes with annoying adverts. I observe that Sung Kim, Director of the Office of Korean Affairs at the Depatment of State, and Kevin Veal,…
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Down She Goes
Cool. I’m off to the US from Sunday to Wednesday for a conference in Maryland (Jeffrey will also be there). It’s at the conference centre where the Wye River Memorandum was negotiated. Also cool.
Medcalf on India & Testing
Rory Medcalf, writing on the Lowy Interpreter, suggests that Manmohan Singh’s omission on India’s test moratorium “won’t lead to fission”: For a start, while it might seem odd that Singh did not mention the testing moratorium on that occasion, the…
No Nukes At Lakenheath
Well, maybe they aren’t, after all. As we discussed last week in the comments, there are no U.S. nuclear weapons at Lakenheath Air Base. The non-presence of U.S. nuclear weapons was confirmed by several sources to Hans Kristensen last week,…
Syria-Iran link?
A big nuclear day today… BBC News is reporting that North Korea has handed over The Declaration; no word yet on its contents (excluding, of course, the continual stream of leaks over the past few months). On a not-entirely-unrelated theme,…
Articles on China ASATs
Dwane Day has had enough of the Pentagon’s Chinese Military Power (CMP) and its slipshod accounting of Chinese military space programs: The Pentagon report is sloppy, inconsistent, and of limited utility, and as an indicator of what China is planning…
Strategic Posture Commission Update 2
The work of the Strategic Posture Commission appears to be proceeding. After some scheduling hiccups (I am being kind), the first full meeting was held at USIP on June 17. Dr. Perry had earlier convened a smaller meeting on May…
Disarmament Down Under
A Tuesday morning distraction for you. I meant to post this yesterday—a Monday morning distraction would be more usual after all—but then got distracted myself… The Australian government recently announced that it would convene the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation…
Will India Test Again?
A colleague of mine notes that Indian PM Manmohan Singh, in his address to the conference Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, omitted any mention of India’s voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing. Here is the key paragraph: India is…
Hibbs Reviews Books on Pak Bomb
If there were an award for journalism on matters nuclear, it would be the Mark Hibbs Award and the eponymous author would be permanently ineligible just to give everyone else a chance. Six of his competitors have recently published a…