Back in 2011, Jeffrey published the first of what should have been many “roundup” posts: posts that would offer an overview of the “arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation universe.” Sadly, Read Behind never became a regular feature, and the experiment faded into this blog’s collective memory. However, with so many arms-control blogs out there, in …
Crowdsourcing lessons from Tomnod
by | 2013-04-08 | 4 Comments
From Tomnod’s website: Examples of possible military buildings, crowds, landmarks and military vehicles in Damascus detected by Tomnod’s CrowdRank and derived from volunteer imagery insight. * * * DigitalGlobe announced today that it is acquiring Tomnod, a five-guy operation known for its pioneering work in the field of crowdsourced intelligence. By combining satellite imagery and …
North Korean Targeting
by | 2013-04-08 | 46 Comments
Greetings from the old #nukefest2013. For my regular column at Foreign Policy last week, I pondered the meaning of Kim Jong Un’s Map of Death. In that post, I made some simple estimates of the four targets: If one has but four targets to select, these four reflect a certain logic. North Korea is targeting …
Mad Men
by | 2013-04-07 | 5 Comments
There’s a Mad Man Theory of Deterrence. Does it apply to arms control, too? Here’s the keeper Mad Man quote, found in Richard M. Nixon’s The Real War (1980): International relations are a lot like poker – stud poker with a hole card… Our only covered card is the will, nerve, and unpredictability of the …
