This is a guest post by Kelsey Atherton. Kelsey D. Atherton is a military technology journalist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work has appeared in Popular Science, The New York Times, Slate, and elsewhere. You can find his work at Wars of Future Past. This post is a companion piece to the Kelsey and Jeffrey’s excellent Arms Control …
Hiroshima 2023
by | 2023-08-05 | No Comments
Jeffrey is back from Hiroshima, where he participated in a Track 2 nuclear dialogue. The outlook for near-term arms control is still grim. Jeffrey and Aaron unpack the G7 statements on disarmament that the Japanese representatives wanted to re-affirm, the tacit condemnation of Russian and Chinese contained within, and the global theater around narrative control …
SinpoSatBot Post Mortem
by | 2023-07-20 | 1 Comment
Twitter’s Anniversary Notification has reminded me that I put together a small satellite imagery management project, SinpoSatBot, six years ago to win an argument on Twitter. It seems like a good time to do a postmortem on whether it was successful (it was!), whether it was useful (it was not!), and whether I won the …
What the F*** Do They Think the Russians are Going to Shoot at Them?!
by | 2023-07-18 | No Comments
Germany has a gap that needs to be filled in the face of Russian threats. But this time it isn’t Fulda, it is….the exoatmospheric layer of ballistic missile defenses? Jeffrey and Aaron try to understand Germany’s decision to buy the very fancy Israeli/American Arrow-3 exoatmospheric BMD system, in absense of a specific Russian missile system …
