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Mother Jones and other groups are having a lot of fun with the fact that acting NNSA Associate Administrator for Defense Nuclear Security Steven Asher (above) spent a few years after retiring from the Air Force managing a Target retail store in…
Another Wednesday, another Ward Wilson entry. This one tackles two of my favorite cases: the Yom Kippur and Falklands Islands Wars. In case you are interesting, Parts 1 and 2 are also available. Doubts about Nuclear Deterrence, Part III: Yom…
I can’t tell whether to irritated at Yonhap, the ROK Ministry of Defense, or both. Read this: North Korea is believed to have detonated a nuclear device in 2009 inside a mountain tunnel elaborately designed with several traps to prevent…
Asahi has an interesting story sourced to someone in North Korea (北朝鮮関係筋). The Strategic Rocket Museum (!) in Pyongyang may have an Unha-3 rocket, like the one launched in December, labeled the “Hwaseong-13.” 【牧野愛博】北朝鮮が、人工衛星打ち上げ用のロケット「銀河３」と称して昨年１２月に発射した機体について、内部では長距離弾道ミサイル「火星１３」として説明していることがわかった。「平和目的」が対外向けの主張にすぎないことが裏付けられた。北朝鮮関係筋が明らかにした。 北朝鮮は昨年４月、平壌に開館した軍武装装備館に、「戦略ロケット館」と称する各種の弾道ミサイルを集めたドーム形の展示室を開設。中心部に、白地に「火星１３」の文字が描かれた機体の実物が据えてある。解説員は、機体の直径が２・４メートルで、天井が低いため最上段部を外してあり、残る長さが２６メートルと説明している。これが、昨年４月と１２月に発射した機体と同じものだという。 「火星１３」の周囲では、北朝鮮が１９８０年代から開発してきたスカッド型弾道ミサイル数発の実物や模型を展示。外国人の軍武装装備館への立ち入りは基本的に認められていない。 Interesting story, but I don’t…
No section in my shoeboxes filled with 4×6 cards is fatter than the one devoted to nuclear deterrence. Lots of smart people have offered conflicting assertions on this topic. Everybody’s right, so far, since nuclear weapons haven’t been used in…
Happy Friday, readers. My name is Tamara Patton, and thanks to the ever-generous Jeffrey, I’ll be a new guest contributor here. For those who’d like to know a little more about me and what I plan to offer, see the…
Well, it’s still Wednesday in California — for a few more minutes. Here is the second installment in the Ward Wilson Wednesdays series. This week, Ward looks at the Cuban Missile Crisis.
North Korea’s announcement of an impending nuclear test refers to a “a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action…” Most people seem to be focusing on the possibility of a…
David Hoffman tapped a thoughtful piece, “Is Nuclear Arms Control Dead?” that appears on Foreign Policy’s website. Nuclear arms control has been declared dead on many occasions, including when the Soviet Union broke a nearly three-year-long moratorium on atmospheric tests…
Well, it’s late at night and my Scotch is empty. So I will make this quick. Here is an image (and .pdf) of the 1998 UK document on Agent 15 that I mentioned in my column for Foreign Policy (Buzz…
