Avatar photoNorth Korea Expanding Key Missile Site

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 …

Avatar photoDrums in the Deep: Estimating Test Yields Based on Seismic Signal

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. …

Avatar photoNo Surprise: The Bomb Has Made a Bad Situation Worse in South Asia

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 …

Avatar photoWho’ll Stop the Rain?

Quote of the week: “Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain.” — John Fogerty In 1978, Nick Nolte was a dynamic young actor with a breakthrough lead in Who’ll Stop the Rain? How often is a movie named after a great song? …