Space Race With China?
Gregory Kulacki and I are doin’ the China ASAT talk again at the New America Foundation, Space Race with China?, on Tuesday at 12:15. Here is a short version of the invite; the whole thing is on the NAF website.…
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Forden on the Shahab 3
One of the best things about this damned blog is that really great people will send me little bits of analysis — short pieces that could never make the Washington Post but are totally awesome nonetheless. Click to play. Debris…
Hill on NORK Declaration, Disablement
Chris Hill’s testimony before the Senate has a couple of big, big developments (with the time stamps for the video) — clearing North Korea on the issue of the aluminum tubes (though not the entire uranium enrichment program) at 56:37…
Browne on Disarmament
Two weeks ago it was Brown (Gordon, the PM), this week it’s Browne (Des, the Secretary of State for Defence). It seems that senior British politicians can’t stop talking about disarmament. (I’ll refrain from making the obvious surname joke; not…
A-Bomb in 3-D
Greetings from … Belgium, I think. I am in Europe this week — Den Haag, Bruxelle, Paris and London. Four cities in seven days. I came back from my meetings today to discover, according to A-bomb, that “Iran has joined…
Suspect Missile Facility Near Tabriz, Iran
Remember that crazy, though possibly true BM-25 story? One detail in the story, originally published by Bild, was that BND had identified a suspect facility near Tabriz. Reader Allen Thomson noticed that someone recently ordered a Digital Globe Image of…
Get a whiff of this!
Yesterday’s Global Security Newswire has a hilarious story about a Laboratory Preparedness Survey in 2007 (an exercise in which labs are required to identify an unknown pathogen). Obviously, it’s funny for all the wrong reasons. Here’s a taster (or should…
Analyzing NORK U
Jeffrey set me a challenge by last week. Before outlining it and my answer, some background might be in order first… As he outlined in a recent post, in their November draft declaration, the North Koreans continued to deny the…
US Spinning Libyan Centrifuges
Uh, well, no Mr. President, you see, it isn’t exactly like a Sit-N-Spin … Frank Munger has great stuff on his blog again. I missed this but, in September 2005, Y-12 General Manager Dennis Ruddy told reporters that the United…
USA 193 Comes Down
© John Locker AP’s Eileen Sullivan quotes government officials stating that a US spy satellite “has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or early March…” The satellite, which no longer can be controlled, could contain hazardous…