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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…
Screen Capture from a FNN Video, click here for the entire video. So, for about five minutes this morning, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces thought North Korea had launched its satellite rocket. (Good thing they didn’t launch anything in response.) One…
I am off to Cambridge for less than 24 hours to participate in a workshop entitled, “Getting to Zero: US and Chinese Perspectives on Near Term Cooperative Steps to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons.” I’ve been spending a lot…
Weather conditions over the Korean peninsula look like they favor a Saturday, 4 April 2009 launch. Hopefully, we will see something more of the launch than the 10 seconds or so of video that came out for the Tae’podong 1…
This bit of wit ended up in my inbox, by way of Nathan Pyles: ADVANCEMENT IN NUCLEAR FORENSICS AP – On April 1, 2009 the Department of Energy (DOE) will announce a tremendous advancement in the science of nuclear weapons…
The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies has published a new occasional paper published by (Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament Occasional Paper No. 15, Cristina Hansell and William C. Potter, eds.) that includes a commissioned paper by yours…
The text of the Obama-Medvedev statement is now available. Actually, there are two of them: a long statement on life, the universe and everything and a short statement on strategic arms control. The arms control statement is pretty vague; presumably…
