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Test a missile, get a pod. Kill a satellite? Get a podcast with a special guest. Ankit Panda joins Aaron and Jeffrey to discuss India’s recent anti-satellite test. Also, Jeffrey says he told you so. (Again.)
This post was authored by Russell Williams, a graduate research assistant at CNS. Misinformation abounds as nuclear rivals India and Pakistan face off once again in Kashmir. Both nations have exploited the conflict for domestic political gain, making a stream…
Quotes of the week: “Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.” — Mary McGrory “It may be that baseball is, under close analysis, pointless. What seems apparent to me is that close analysis is pointless. The…
A post from my colleague Cameron Trainer. Cashing in on the Construction Industry:the RGB may receive funds from DPRK laborers in Russia This week NKNews published an article of mine detailing Russian courts’ handling of three instances in which North…
Quote of the week: To my mind, the nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.” — George Kennan George Kennan holds…
Quote of the week: “Only lack of mutual trust, and not lack of desire for agreement, can stand in the path of an efficient agreement for the prevention of nuclear warfare.” –The Franck Report, June 11, 1945 The “Magna Carta”…
As Jeffrey likes to say, the Singapore summit of June 2018 was a goat rodeo—the contained chaos that results from putting some kids with ropes into a corral with some, well, kids. It looks like this: That makes last month’s…
Recent activity at a North Korean rocket production facility suggests that North Korea may be preparing a space launch, based on new evidence. The Second Academy of Natural Sciences (SANS), located near Sanum-dong, outside of Pyongyang, is North Korea’s primary…
Quote of the week: “We must resist the childish impulse to do and have everything that the adversary has or is pursuing.” — David Singer, Deterrence, Arms Control and Disarmament (1962) One good reason to extend the Obama/Medvedev New Strategic Arms…
The summit in Hanoi was a bust. New podcast co-host Anne Pellegrino joins Jeffrey and Aaron to discuss, as Joshua Pollack calls it, the Scapegoat Rodeo in Hanoi.
