Fanfare for the Common Man
Lyric of the week: “You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes You just might find, well, You get what you need” — The Rolling Stones Exhale and enjoy. Breathe in deeply. Notice that which can…
2020
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Peeking under the shroud of North Korea’s Monster Missile
Some unresolved questions surround the huge new mobile missiles that North Korea showed off in last month’s parade. Most of all: what will they carry, and when will the North Koreans reveal it through flight-testing? Let’s start with what we…
Paul Warnke
Definition of the week: depraved indifference (legal definition): when a person has an utter disregard for the value of human life – not because he or she means to cause grievous harm, but because he or she simply does not care.…
The 2020 North Korean Military Parade
On 10/10/2020, the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Worker’s Party of Korea, the DPRK showed of a lot of missiles. Again. In addition to all the stuff they’ve been testing over the last two years, they introduced a new,…
Putin Votes for Trump
Quotes of the week: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.” ― Walter Scott, Marmion ““Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” The Wizard of Oz Vladimir Putin has joined tens of millions…
Burevestnik Testing To Resume
Russia Preparing to Resume Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile Tests Michael Duitsman and Jeffrey Lewis New satellite photographs taken by Planet Labs and analyzed by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies show that Russia is preparing to resume test flights of its…
The President’s Sole Authority for First Use
Note to readers: Because of its renewed relevance, I have updated a post that appeared in ACW under the heading “A Three Person Rule for Nuclear First Use” on April 17, 2017. A shorter version of this essay was published…
Saving the World with Datayo
Melissa Hanham, director of Datayo and Deputy Director of the Open Nuclear Network, joins Jeffrey and Scott to talk about Datayo, a project aimed at reducing nuclear risks and fostering a transparent, collaborative, and high-quality analytic information environment. Scott fawns…
The Deal
Now that a few episodes have dropped, Anne and Jeffrey talk about Jeffrey’s new project, The Deal. Jeffrey chronicles how researchers like Corey Hinderstein chased down data before satellite imagery was so easily available, Wendy Sherman’s incredible memory for names,…
Air-Launched Cruise Missiles in Uiju, DPRK.
This article was co-authored with Jeffrey Lewis, who pulled the historical documents and made the connection between the KN05 and the Styx storage site. North Korea has air-launched cruise missiles, and it looks like they store them at an airfield…