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Yesterday, I tweeted some big news from the Carnegie Conference: DepSecState Steinberg announced that Biden will be responsible for overseeing START Follow-on and CTBT ratification. I had heard rumors to that effect — hey, he is the former Chairman of…
click on the image for a larger version Or, to be more precise, 44 seconds. For those of you very few who can possibly muster enough interested in reading a third posting on this subject, DigitalGlobe has just told Globalsecurity.org…
click on the image for a larger version Unfortunately, there was a mistake in the range of the original plots. (These things happen when you rush to get things put up on the blog as soon as possible. Im sorry…
Cross-posted from TotalWonkerr.com. Few things are more curious than how senior Russian officials have described the more spectacular North Korean missile and nuclear developments of recent years. Compared to Japan, South Korea, and the U.S., the Russians are outliers. First,…
click on the image for a larger version The amazing satellite image by DigitalGlobe and presented by GlobalSecurity.org of the Unha-2 in flight can be used to determine the portion of the powered trajectory as it crosses those altitudes where…
These things are endurance tests. I’ve been twittering the interesting stuff, from Linton Brooks saying the US should ratify the CTBT to Rich Mies endorsing a declaratory posture of last resort. So are other folks. If you find people, post…
Images from the ground of the Unha-2 launch are starting to come in. Besides an amazing satellite image by DigitalGlobe and presented by GlobalSecurity.org of the the Unha-2 in flight, there are North Korean television images starting to appear in…
Saturn interstage falling off, click here to watch the complete video I wish I knew what the 2006 Tae’podong-2 looked like. My guess is that it was very different, at least in the details, than yesterday’s Unha-2 launch. Why do…
I am excited, as always, to be seeing so many old friends at the Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference, even if this year’s agenda leaves me a little cold. Maybe I am just overreacting to the keynote address by Anne Lauvergeon, Chief…
This plot from Google Earth shows the announced splashdown zones and the locations of the splashdowns from a story in the Yomiuri. Credit: David Wright. Based on where the second stage fell, it is clear that the North Korean satellite…
