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Quote of the week: “He was born with a roaring voice, and it had the trick of inflaming half-wits. His whole career was devoted to raising these half-wits against their betters, that he himself might shine… What animated him from…
A couple weeks back North Korea unveiled its Hwasong-12 missile. The big hulking vehicle used for the test launch was not a transporter-erector-launcher (TEL), but rather just a Transporter-Erector (TE)!
Quote of the week: “Our world will be a safer and healthier place when we can admit that every time we make an atomic bomb we corrupt the morals of a host of innocent neutrons below the age of consent.”…
This is a guest post by BASIC Project Leader Sebastian Brixey-Williams. The legal implications of the nuclear ban: separating fact from fiction The nuclear ban treaty’s draft text is out, and the arms control community is beavering away trying to…
Turkey released footage of a test of a short-range ballistic missile, Roketsan’s Bora/Khan. You know the Arms Control Wonk rule, test a new missile, get a podcast. Jeffrey and Aaron discuss Turkey’s defense industries, armed forces, and cooperation in developing…
Malaysian-North Korean relations have been imploding since the assassination of Kim Jong Nam in Kuala Lumpur Airport, and the subsequent revelations that North Korea has been doing a whole lot of other shady things on Malaysian soil. If you haven’t…
Long time reader, first time Wonker. My thanks to the Wonk-Supreme for allowing me to contribute. The president of the negotiations for a nuclear weapons ban convention has just released her first draft of the proposed treaty. As will become…
Quote of the week: “You show me a Secretary of Defense who’s planning not to prevail [in a nuclear war] and I’ll show you a Secretary of Defense who ought to be impeached.” —Caspar Weinberger, New York Times, August 24,…
North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are the topic du jour in the WMD world, but if you’re trying to get smart about the subject, where should you turn? The amount of material never gets any smaller, and you’ve nearly got to be…
I made a thing to help compare the Hwasong-10 and Hwasong-12 missiles. A lot of people are rushing out their analysis. We’d like to get it right before publishing. I am old fashioned like that.
