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Julian Borger has a post up on the Nuclear Posture Review, in which I liken choosing among the two options on declaratory policy to the choice between plague and cholera. Chris Jones over at PONI literally doesn’t understand the argument,…
Two announcements of note. First, the International Panel on Fissile Materials has a cool new blog. (No one tells me anything!) Second, writing on said blog, Zia Mian notes that construction on Pakistan’s Khushab 2 reactor is now probably complete:…
Greetings from Pakistan where, when it comes to nuclear strategy, people say little but act expeditiously. In India, on the other hand, people write much and act slowly. India now has a coterie of first-rate thinkers on nuclear issues besides…
A statement appearing in KCNA on Tuesday — two of them, actually — lambaste the United States and “the puppet army of South Korea” for upcoming annual joint military exercises. Ho hum. Nothing unusual there. Not only do we see…
One of the things that has always stuck in my mind from my childhood addition to science fiction was Robert Heinlein’s explanation of rocket guidance, where a special “cam” was machined to control the trajectory of a rocket every time…
