Avatar photoVideo of Naro-1’s August 2009 Failure

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 …

Avatar photoGOV/2010/28 and GOV/2010/29

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.

Avatar photoWen Jiabao on the Cheonan Incident

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 …

Avatar photoDeath by Number

Courtesy of Milton Leitenberg’s research (“The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Bio-Terrorism” in the NONPROLIFERATION REVIEW, 16:1 (March 2009): Annual deaths in the United States due to cancer: 565,000 Annual deaths in the United States due to tobacco: 440,000 Annual deaths in the United States due to obesity: 400,000 Annual deaths in the United States due to …