Today is April 5, 2010, the one year anniversary of North Korea’s failed attempt to launch a satellite into orbit. Depending on how you count them, this was either the DPRK’s second or third attempt to launch a satellite. (I favor calling it the third satellite attempt but, as fellow-wonk contributor Josh Pollack points out, …
Prague Treaty Cuts Are Modest, Real
by | 2010-04-05 | 12 Comments
Photo credit: John McDowell. (Worth checking out his entire portfolio, by the way). Peter Baker, in the New York Times, has a long piece on the bomber counting rules in the New START (or Prague Treaty). The bottom line — as both Pavel Podvig and Hans Kristensen argue — is that the bomber rules are …
Happy Hr for Leonor Tomero @ Big Hunt
by | 2010-04-02 | No Comments
The lovely and talented Leonor Tomero is leaving the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation for the greener pastures of the House Armed Services Committee. You know what that means! So, come help the Nukes of Hazard crew drown their sorrows in booze at … oh, you know the drill. The Big Hunt, Thursday, April …
38 North
by | 2010-04-01 | 10 Comments
The US-Korea Institute at SAIS has a new blog, with the swell name 38 North. (That’s the latitude longitude line that established the division of Korea.) I’ve got an article (How AQ Khan Helped Distort America’s DPRK Policy) that applies the themes I described in my post, Leaks and Motives of AQ Khan, and applies …
