Igor Sutyagin — yes that Igor Sutyagin — has published a fascinating occasional paper for RUSI entitled, Atomic Accounting: A New Estimate of Russia’s Non-Strategic Nuclear Forces. Apparently, the Russian stockpile may not be quite as large as we believe.
Unha Debris Revisited
by | 2012-12-17 | 44 Comments
Yesterday, I noted that images of the debris from the Unha launch might provide insights into the design of the missile. We have such an observation already! The fuel tank appears to have four feed pipes coming out of the fuel tank. This answers a long-standing question about whether North Korea might try to redesign the first …
Unha Debris
by | 2012-12-16 | 8 Comments
One of the most fascinating results of the Unha-3 trajectory and relatively success is the debris! There is plenty of video of what looks like the first stage fuel tank. (Here is an image of the full rocket for comparison.) There is also some grainy footage of the tank bobbing in the water. This ought to be really useful …
New From NSA on Pollard
by | 2012-12-14 | 5 Comments
During the Obama re-election campaign and afterward some people have been stirring the pot on ex-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, but now we can mull this item which popped up from the National Security Archive today. I don’t think we can say off the bat whether or not it will add or detract from the case Pollard’s allies …
