Screen Capture from a FNN Video, click here for the entire video. So, for about five minutes this morning, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces thought North Korea had launched its satellite rocket. (Good thing they didn’t launch anything in response.) One…
I am off to Cambridge for less than 24 hours to participate in a workshop entitled, “Getting to Zero: US and Chinese Perspectives on Near Term Cooperative Steps to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons.” I’ve been spending a lot…
Weather conditions over the Korean peninsula look like they favor a Saturday, 4 April 2009 launch. Hopefully, we will see something more of the launch than the 10 seconds or so of video that came out for the Tae’podong 1…
This bit of wit ended up in my inbox, by way of Nathan Pyles: ADVANCEMENT IN NUCLEAR FORENSICS AP – On April 1, 2009 the Department of Energy (DOE) will announce a tremendous advancement in the science of nuclear weapons…
The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies has published a new occasional paper published by (Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament Occasional Paper No. 15, Cristina Hansell and William C. Potter, eds.) that includes a commissioned paper by yours…
The text of the Obama-Medvedev statement is now available. Actually, there are two of them: a long statement on life, the universe and everything and a short statement on strategic arms control. The arms control statement is pretty vague; presumably…
I’ve been struggling to say something witty about the race to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as IAEA Director-General. Mark Heinrich at Reuters sums it up pretty well: The International Atomic Energy Agency failed to agree on a new chief on Friday,…
No, not the switch from an offense-dominated world to a defense-dominated one — you might remember that idea from the 1980s, kids — but the switch from a Republican administration to a Democratic one, and what that means for ballistic…
The image comes from ISIS while the outline to the left is my handiwork. I’m starting to feel rather parasitic about using ISIS’s pictures for analysis so I’d like to thank them for publishing them in such a timely fashion!…
Click on the image for a larger version (The 26 March 2009 image is from ISIS) If you haven’t seen it, check out ISIS’s latest report on North Korea’s missile launch preparation which shows an image of the launch site…
