Update | 8 March 2010 Well, damn. That story is dated March 4, 2009. My parents used to get the year wrong when I was a kid. I’d roll my eyes and they warned me that it would happen to me someday. Wow. India is planning a test of its hit-to-kill theater missile defense system: …
Pyongyang’s Priorities
by | 2010-03-05 | 7 Comments
Malnourished children awaiting treatment at a hospital in Sariwon City (North Hwanghae Province) on 18 February 2009. Photo: World Food Program/Lena Savelli There’s a really fine post over at NOH about seizures of goods headed to and from North Korea under UN Security Council Resolutions 1718 and 1874. If you don’t know, 1718 prohibited imports …
Plague and Cholera
by | 2010-03-04 | 7 Comments
Julian Borger has a post up on the Nuclear Posture Review, in which I liken choosing among the two options on declaratory policy to the choice between plague and cholera. Chris Jones over at PONI literally doesn’t understand the argument, which leads me to think that if a smart guy like Chris can be so …
IPFM & Khushab 2 Come Online
by | 2010-03-04 | No Comments
Two announcements of note. First, the International Panel on Fissile Materials has a cool new blog. (No one tells me anything!) Second, writing on said blog, Zia Mian notes that construction on Pakistan’s Khushab 2 reactor is now probably complete: On 20 February, Pakistan’s Prime Minister visited the Khushab nuclear complex, along with senior military …
