The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is turning its attention to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty for the first time since 1999, when it held the briefest of hearings on the Treaty before fast-forwarding it to the Senate, which rebuked President Bill Clinton by denying its consent to ratification. The vote was mostly along party lines …
DPRK Missile Designations
by | 2016-09-05 | 7 Comments
North Korea tested three Nodong ballistic missiles, which means I am going to be treated to three days of the same penis joke on Twitter. No. Dong. I get it. The thing is, “Nodong” is our name for their missile. That’s right kids, we call it the Nodong. They don’t. So, they aren’t idiots. And there is no …
KN-11 and THAAD
by | 2016-08-28 | 22 Comments
North Korea has now tested what appears to be a two-stage, solid-fueled ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to more than 1,000 km, probably much more. I would have thought that would garner some attention. North Korea’s new ballistic missile, which the US calls the KN-11, is a technically submarine-launched ballistic missile. But …
The Demise of the Republican National Security Establishment
by | 2016-08-28 | 3 Comments
The skirmish between Senator Bob Corker and the Obama Administration over the UN Security Council resolution on the CTBT is yet another reflection of the demise of the internationalist wing of the Republican Party. Donald Trump’s nomination and his musings about Vladimir Putin are (hopefully) sui generis, but his random thoughts about the Bomb, NATO, …
