It was easy to overlook amid the discussion of the Bushehr reactor starting up, but Iran’s military, always busy, announced a new ballistic missile test last week. According to Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, the new Qiam-1 liquid-fueled ballistic missile marks an advance in countermeasures against ballistic missile defenses.
Toward Smaller Nuclear Forces
by | 2010-08-22 | 9 Comments
There’s a serious new study by a group of authors in the United States and Russia being published in the coming days that calls for deeper cuts in nuclear weapons—well beyond those envisioned in the New Start treaty pending before the Senate. The new study is based on extensive computer modeling of a nuclear war, …
The Ayatollah Shuts the Door, Again
by | 2010-08-21 | 21 Comments
It’s been a busy week or so on the Iran front. Just getting caught up may take a little while. Let’s start with the diplomacy. Technology will be tackled in a follow-up post. Starting in late June, there were some hints and suggestions from Tehran that they’d like to re-open negotiations with the West on …
China’s Space Power in 2010
by | 2010-08-20 | 2 Comments
So the 2010 iteration of the Department of Defense’s China Military Power report is out. The 2009 version came out on March 24, 2009, about two months after Inauguration Day, so this is probably the first one for which the Obama administration’s political appointees ran the show from start to finish. And obviously, intelligence assessments …
