Quote of the week: “The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea can approach it.” — Blaise Pascale Note to readers: Every two years or so, Guest Contributor Chauncey Gardner weighs in from his woodland retreat. I interviewed him while standing unsteadily in the eddies of …
North Korea Expanding Key Missile Site
by | 2018-07-02 | 4 Comments
This post is authored by Jeffrey Lewis and Dave Schmerler Despite the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration, in which North and South Korea “confirmed the common goal of realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula,” satellite images captured by Planet show that North Korea is completing a major expansion of an important factory for producing solid …
Drums in the Deep: Estimating Test Yields Based on Seismic Signal
by | 2018-06-25 | 1 Comment
This post is authored by Nate Taylor. Recently, equally great statesmen Kim Jong Un and Donald “Jong” Trump met in Singapore for a brief discussion on how they plan to split their Nobel prize winnings, their favorite burgers, and (assuming they got to it) the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement (CVID) of the Korean Peninsula. …
No Surprise: The Bomb Has Made a Bad Situation Worse in South Asia
by | 2018-06-25 | 3 Comments
Quotes of the week: “For the political Hinduism of today, there is nothing very troubling about nuclear weapons. In the eyes of Hindutva supporters, at this time and given the history of the past thousand years, nuclear weapons are necessary — for deterrence, for defense, but above all, for the moral rearmament of the Hindu …
