Well, this is pretty cool. I keep pointing out that Russians love the internet — and place silly amounts on sensitive national security information online, whether it is a jack-knifed ICBM, a rifle factory under construction in Venezuela or ballistic missile submarines burning like a Roman candle. Somehow I missed that, in 2011, a Russian blogger/urban …
Sanger and Shanker Confusion
by | 2013-01-18 | 29 Comments
They don’t look anything alike. Well, this is irritating. David Sanger and Thom Shanker have published a really interesting article that is irredeemably fouled up by their profound confusion about North Korean missiles. The lede of the article is that “North Korea is moving mobile missile launchers around the country, some carrying a new generation of …
Bunting and the Bomb
by | 2013-01-17 | 2 Comments
Will President Barack Obama speak of nuclear matters during his second inaugural address? If past is prologue, he will offer a sentence or two. Only twice in the nuclear age has a Presidential inaugural address not touched on nuclear danger. George W. Bush’s second oration in 2005, marked by soaring rhetoric about the expansion of …
Missile Defender Day
by | 2013-01-16 | 8 Comments
Patriot launch unit rearmed after making first “kill.” Battery A, 2d Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery, after becoming the first Patriot unit to successfully engage a SCUD missile, 18 January 1991, XVIII Airborne Corps History Office photograph by SPC Randall R. Anderson, DS-F-117-07. Janne Nolan informed me that today was “Missile Defender Day” — when …
