Any conference that requires consensus, with almost two hundred potential vetoes, has two most-likely outcomes: a lowest common denominator success or an ugly mess. The 2005 NPT Review Conference was an ugly mess. The 2010 Rev Con was a lowest common denominator success. It still had its regrettable aspects — some of which were highlighted …
Video of Naro-1’s August 2009 Failure
by | 2010-06-01 | 8 Comments
A portion of the Naro-1’s payload can be seen in the low right hand corner of this frame of the payload rocketcam. Half of the clam shell nose fairing remains in the left half of the image. Today’s techno-wonk exploration of last year’s Naro-1’s failure is only made possible by the brilliant internet searching of …
GOV/2010/28 and GOV/2010/29
by | 2010-05-31 | 10 Comments
Here are the most recent Director-General’s reports on Iran and Syria. Since it is Memorial Day, I am not going to even bother reading these until tomorrow. Update | May 31, 7:59 am I’ve edited the post a couple of times with regard to sourcing.
Wen Jiabao on the Cheonan Incident
by | 2010-05-29 | 9 Comments
We have been following the Cheonan incident on the blog — from Geoff Forden’s initial post indicating Torpedo damage (ROK Ship: Typical Torpedo Damage), to Josh Pollack’s posts on the report that concluded, yes, indeed North Korea had torpedoed the Cheonan (The Cheonan Report, The Cheonan Report, Continued) and South Korea’s response (Lee Myung-bak’s Line …
