More Malfeasance on Open Skies
Lyric of the Week: “There must be some kind of way outta here Said the joker to the thief There’s too much confusion I can’t get no relief” – “All Along the Watchtower,” lyrics by Bob Dylan, best cover by…
2019
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North Korea’s New SLBM: The Pukguksong-3
It is finally here! Two years after seeing posters for the Pukguksong-3 during Kim Jong Un’s visit to the Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defense Science in 2017, the North Korea has finally tested the next generation of its…
No Use is Stronger Than No First Use
Quote of the week: “The earth — its cities and its forests in particular — is like a well-laid fire. If you light it with enough nuclear matches, it will burn, and as it burns it will fill the atmosphere…
Impeachment and Arms Control
Quote of the week: “In politics, words are the coin of the realm. Used judiciously, they can build political capital, coalesce a public consensus, or enrich a nation. But when frittered away or ineffectively employed, words in political life can…
Whatever Flots Russia’s Boat: The World’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant Goes Operational
Co-authored by Blake A., CNS Graduate Research Assistant In April of this year, Russia announced the commissioning of the world’s first and only floating nuclear power plant (FNPP). The ship, named the Akademik Lomonosov, recently moved to its permanent mooring…
A trace of the Quds in Tehran?
More than a week has passed since the attacks on Aramco facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais. While many details about the attack remain murky, at least some of the fog of war seems to have been lifted. The US, the…
Free Falling, cont.
Prophecy of the week: “The show of their countenance doth witness against them; And they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have wrought evil unto themselves.” — Isaiah Lo, the standing…
An Iranian Missile Attack on Saudi Arabia?
Iran may have just rocketed oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. The ACW trio asks what else is new, after time spent analyzing Qiam strikes on Riyadh. With tensions increasing in the Gulf, and questions about a potential US strike to punish…
Raymond Aron
Quote of the week: “The idea that the two great powers of an international system are brothers at the same time as being enemies should be accepted as banal rather than paradoxical.” — Raymond Aron Those seeking escape from surface-layered…
Meet the Quds 1
On September 14, several explosions rocked the Khurais oilfield as well as the Abqaiq refinery, one of Saudi Arabia’s most vital petrochemical installations. Several hours later, the Houthis claimed that they had targeted both facilities with ten drones as part…
