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On Thursday and Friday, I attended a workshop sponsored by AAAS and Princeton concerning advances in Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty monitoring and verification. There was considerable discussion of “venting” — when underground nuclear tests eject radioactive material into the…
Jan Stupl’s contour of pixel intensity of the U’nha-2 contrail image Jan Stupl, who is a Science Fellow at Stanford’s CISAC this year and who has done an amazing experimental and theoretical analysis of the US Airborne Laser, produced a…
Cross-posted from Verification, Implementation and Compliance. The monitors have been switched off. The cameras are being removed from their mounts, and the seals are broken. The guesthouse just off the main site no longer houses the IAEA three-person team or…
A number of us have been wondering why the US didn’t send the Sea-Based X-band (SBX) radar out to see (sorry, I couldn’t resist that!) the Unha-2’s launch. One of the best arguments I’ve heard comes from Victoria Samson who…
Cross-posted from totalwonkerr.com. Last week’s obsessive recapping of the Unha-2 launch provided an occasion to ask why Russian officials have such odd perceptions of North Korean missile and nuclear activity, and what that would imply for the actual use of…
Meri Lugo and I have a short piece on nuclear weapons dismantlement in The Argument, Foreign Policy’s “provocation about global politics, economics, and ideas, written by people who shape them.” Speaking in Prague on April 5, U.S. President Barack Obama…
Following up on Geoff’s apt reference to the technology campaign trail, here’s more on Iran’s Fuel Manufacturing Plant, or FMP. We’ve got the wonkporn interior photos, including shots of equipment that happened to be next to politicians. We’ve got statements…
If you haven’t seen it yet, you should check out the “Video Tours of Iran’s Nuclear Facilities” available at the ISISnuclearIran website. I frankly didn’t find them as interesting as the similar in appearance videos of Iranian missile production facilities.…
He’s baaaaaaaack! A thinner, grayer Kim Jong Il appeared at the first session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly at the Mansudae Assembly Hall. The Norks released the video. I love the desultory little clap he gives about 45 seconds…
Reflecting on conferences after they are over rarely makes for interesting blogging. However, I didn’t have a chance to blog while the Carnegie Conference was on, and I can’t quite bring myself to tweet. So, I wanted to point those…
