It is often very hard to ferret out hard information from media reports. That is why it is so nice to be associated with so many hard working wonk-readers who pick up real information. Wonk-reader Tal Inbar sends these two…
Wonk-reader Tal Inbar sends this image of a Nodong missile on its plant floor. Presumably, it was taken in the final assembly hall. Unfortunately, it doesn’t show some of the more interesting portions of the missile (would it have killed…
Timeline of the 5 April 2009 U’nha-2 Launch. Click on the image for a larger version. Ok, so I don’t have the amount of confidence in my prediction as the title seems to indicate. But everybody else is making blanket…
North Korea is expected by just about everyone to launch at least one (and possibly two?) large missiles/rockets this weekend. And yet, they do not seem to have filed a warning to mariners and airmen notification with the International Civil…
AQ Khan and Samar Mubarakmand, flanking the man in the blue beret (believed to be General Zulfikar Ali). Reproduced from the Nuclear Weapons Archive. A.Q. Khan is easily the most famous person associated with Pakistan’s nuclear program. By fostering the…
At left, is an Iranian numerically controlled lathe milling machine forming cooling channels in a rocket engine. It is impossible to tell the scale of this engine — and therefore impossible to uniquely link it to the Safir second stage.…
The first time I met Piers Millett, we were having a drink at Mr. Pickwick Pub in Geneva. Now, Piers — one of only three members of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) Implementation Support Unit in Geneva — is in…
James collected a couple of articles on Yinhe incident for an October 2008 post entitled, The Yinhe Incident. Worth revisiting.
According to David Sanger in the NYT, some folks in the Administration are thinking very carefully about the intelligence problem in interdiction: Pentagon officials are clearly not eager to confront the Kang Nam 1. The intelligence about what is on…
A couple weeks ago, Benn Tannenbaum invited Ted Postol to come down to Washington. Ted gave a fascinating talk, in which he argued that the second stage of the Unha may be a re-purposed SS-N-6. This is a plausible answer…
