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Yesterday, I wondered if the White House fact sheet on the START Follow-on was not the Joint Understanding itself. Sometimes, of course, the press flacks just slap “fact sheet” on something and send it out the door. In this case,…
Since Jeff and Pavel already have done such a nice job explicating the “Joint Understanding for the START Follow-On Treaty,” I’d thought I’d chime in with a couple of thoughts about its poor cousin, the “Joint Statement by Dmitry A.…
Well, we have a Joint Understanding for the START Follow-on Treaty. I observe that Reuters, in one of those irritating self indulgent news analysis pieces, frames the question “Spin or Deep Cut?” (The article, by Guy Faulconbridge is actually pretty…
It is often very hard to ferret out hard information from media reports. That is why it is so nice to be associated with so many hard working wonk-readers who pick up real information. Wonk-reader Tal Inbar sends these two…
Wonk-reader Tal Inbar sends this image of a Nodong missile on its plant floor. Presumably, it was taken in the final assembly hall. Unfortunately, it doesn’t show some of the more interesting portions of the missile (would it have killed…
Timeline of the 5 April 2009 U’nha-2 Launch. Click on the image for a larger version. Ok, so I don’t have the amount of confidence in my prediction as the title seems to indicate. But everybody else is making blanket…
North Korea is expected by just about everyone to launch at least one (and possibly two?) large missiles/rockets this weekend. And yet, they do not seem to have filed a warning to mariners and airmen notification with the International Civil…
AQ Khan and Samar Mubarakmand, flanking the man in the blue beret (believed to be General Zulfikar Ali). Reproduced from the Nuclear Weapons Archive. A.Q. Khan is easily the most famous person associated with Pakistan’s nuclear program. By fostering the…
At left, is an Iranian numerically controlled lathe milling machine forming cooling channels in a rocket engine. It is impossible to tell the scale of this engine — and therefore impossible to uniquely link it to the Safir second stage.…
The first time I met Piers Millett, we were having a drink at Mr. Pickwick Pub in Geneva. Now, Piers — one of only three members of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Implementation Support Unit in Geneva — is in…
