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Glenn Kessler reported in the Washington Post yesterday that the US Intelligence Community has revised its estimate of the amount of plutonium separated at Yongbyon. U.S. intelligence analysts have prepared a fresh estimate of the size of North Korea’s stockpile…
A friend observes that the Box-on-the-Euphrates may have been modeled to appear, at first glance, like a ruined Byzantine fortress. The other three images are of a Byzantine fortress in Zippori (Sepphoris) National Park, Israel. Same friend sends along some…
That’s the title of a disturbing new study conducted by a team of experts from the Peterson Institute for International Economics. It concludes that “the prospect of hunger-related deaths occurring in the next several months is approaching certainty.” Here is…
I spent a few days last summer in Sichuan Province — including Dujiangyan, close to the epicenter of the earthquake, and Mianyang, now the headquarters for the relief effort and also hit very hard. I still haven’t heard from any…
The PrepCon ended on Friday, and the group Reaching Critical Will has posted a bunch of documents from it, including the Chair’s controversial Factual Summary of the conference proceedings and a really bizarre presentation to NGOs by the Iranian representative…
ISIS have released an impressive and comprehensive report detailing the deception techniques used by the Syrians for the Box on the Euphrates (Andreas has already beaten me to blog it—you obviously haven’t got enough work to do, mate!). It answers…
Over at Verification, Andreas has put up the first two in a series of posts commemorating the tenth anniversary of India and Pakistan’s test series. Well worth checking out.
Whatever one thinks of the editorial page, Nicholas Kralev at the Washington Times has had a pair of good stories on the document dump from North Korea. Nicholas Kralev, “N. Korea to give nuke files to U.S.,” Washington Times, May…
The “Would they? Could they?” debate in regard to nuclear terrorism is an old one. There has been a lot written about whether terrorists want to use nuclear weapons and, if they do, whether they have the technological capability to…
It’s a good question, one that we will try to answer tomorrow afternoon. Special guest star likely to appear. There is a little reception afterward. It will be awesome, I promise. Thousands, Hundreds, or Zero? How Many Nuclear Weapons Do…
