Quote of the week: “We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world – of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is …
Archives for July 2020
Heroes of Arms Control: Thomas Schelling
by | July 13, 2020 | 9 Comments
Quote of the week: “There has never been any doubt about the military effectiveness of nuclear weapons or their potential for terror. A large part of the credit for their not having been used must be due to the “taboo” that Secretary of State Dulles perceived to have attached itself to these weapons as early …
The Wollo-Ri Suspected Nuclear Warhead Manufacturing Facility
by | July 10, 2020 | No Comments
Another day, another suspected nuclear facility in North Korea. Anne and Jeffrey discuss the Wollo-ri Suspected Nuclear Warhead Manufacturing Facility. They discuss how the CNS team has monitored this site since 2015, the satellite imagery analysis that went into it, and Ankit Panda’s impressive sourcing. They also discuss the immediate pushback, claims that this site …
Wollo-ri Nuclear Facility
by | July 8, 2020 | No Comments
This is the analysis that accompanies the CNN story titled “New satellite imagery shows activity at suspected North Korean nuclear facility” by Zachary Cohen. The Wollo-ri Suspected Nuclear Warhead Manufacturing Facility Catherine Dill, David Laboon, Jeffrey Lewis, David Schmerler In 2018, some of us at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) successfully identified …
Mysterious Explosions in Iran
by | July 6, 2020 | No Comments
In a cross-over podcast with FPRI’s Middle East Brief, Aaron speaks with Fabian Hinz, a frequent guest on the podcast, about the recent explosions in Iran and what open source intelligence has revealed about the two incidents. You can find the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Middle East Brief at: https://www.fpri.org/multimedia/middle-east-brief/ Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!
Count Every Warhead: A Critique
by | July 6, 2020 | 1 Comment
Lyrics of the week I’m looking and I’m dreaming for the first time I’m inside and I’m outside at the same time And everything is real Do I like the way I feel? When the world crashes in into my living room Television man made me what I am People like to put the television …
A Satellite Imagery Review of the Pyongsan Uranium Mill
by | July 1, 2020 | 1 Comment
The Pyongsan Uranium Concentration Plant and its associated mine are North Korea’s only publicly acknowledged source of uranium yellowcake. [1] From this site, uranium yellowcake is reportedly sent either to the Yongbyon nuclear complex for conversion into fuel elements for North Korea’s sole operational gas-graphite reactor or to a conversion facility in preparation for uranium …
