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Quote of the week: “What’s going on right now is that the crazier analysts have risen to higher positions than is normally the case. They are able to carry their ideas further and higher because the people at the top…
Turkey used a ballistic missile, the Bora, for the first time in combat. Launch a missile, get a pod! Aaron, Anne and Jeffrey discuss the Bora, geolocating the launch site, and the state of missile proliferation in the Middle…
Quote of the week: “The U.S. should be willing to adopt the concept that the only purpose of nuclear weapons is to negate nuclear weapons, and make it national policy not to use nuclear weapons first, but only in retaliation…
Quote of the week: “I was honored to be the first of 146 leaders to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, our commitment to end all nuclear tests for all time — the longest-sought, hardest-fought prize in the history of…
The United States intelligence community, or a portion of it, has concluded that Russia is conducting very low-yield nuclear tests. Aaron and Jeffrey discuss past allegations of nuclear testing, open source monitoring of Russia’s nuclear test site at Novaya Zemlya…
Quote of the week: “What in the name of God is strategic superiority? What is the significance of it politically, militarily, operationally, at these levels of numbers? What do you do with it?” — Henry Kissinger (1974) Henry Kissinger voiced…
Snippet of the week: Bullitt: Look Chalmers, let’s understand each other… I don’t like you. Chalmers: Oh come on now, don’t be naive lieutenant. We both know how careers are made. Integrity is something you sell the public. Bullitt: You…
Lyric of the week: We got department stores And toilet paper Got Styrofoam boxes For the ozone layer Got a man of the people Says keep hope alive Got fuel to burn Got roads to drive — Neil Young, “Rockin’…
If see any news coverage about missile threats in the Middle East, nine times out of ten it is Iran’s missiles that are in the news. But Iran is just one of many countries in the region. Egypt, Israel, Turkey…
This post was authored by Cyrus Jabbari, a graduate research assistant at CNS. There’s been an increase in escalatory events in recent weeks surrounding the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and the Persian Gulf. Terrorist entities operating out of Yemen…
