I am a little baffled that the media isn’t making a bigger deal out of the fact that North Korea paraded six road-mobile ICBMs through Pyongyang. Six road-mobile ICBMs. Hey! Look! ICBMs! Road-mobile ICBMs! Just like Gates said! As best I can tell, reporters don’t really understand that this isn’t the same missile as the …
Tac Nukes in South Asia
by | 2012-04-18 | 23 Comments
Hans J. Morgenthau was a heavyweight whose books, including Politics Among Nations (1948) and In Defense of the National Interest (1951), packed a real wallop. Morgenthau also wrote with great clarity about nuclear weapons. Check out his essay, “The Four Paradoxes of Nuclear Strategy,” which appeared in the March 1964 issue of the American Political …
North Korea’s ICBM Unveiled
by | 2012-04-15 | 140 Comments
[Updates have been transposed to the end of the post. -Ed.] Tal Inbar points out these photos from today’s military parade in Pyongyang. More details after the jump.
Iran’s Neutron Initiator Test at Parchin?
by | 2012-04-14 | 46 Comments
Paul-Anton Krueger, who often seems intent on seizing the fallen mantle of Mark Hibbs, has advanced the story of Iran’s R&D activities at Parchin. His article in Saturday’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung — just in time for the talks in Istanbul — redeems this blogger’s foolish promise to post something about weaponization in Iran. It’s not an explosive …
