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 …
Indian Nuclear Strategists
by | 2010-03-04 | 5 Comments
Greetings from Pakistan where, when it comes to nuclear strategy, people say little but act expeditiously. In India, on the other hand, people write much and act slowly. India now has a coterie of first-rate thinkers on nuclear issues besides K. Subrahmanyam, including Raja Mohan, Rear Adm. (ret.) Raja Menon, Rajesh Basrur, Gurmeet Kanwal, and …
North Korea: Peace or Else!
by | 2010-03-03 | 3 Comments
A statement appearing in KCNA on Tuesday — two of them, actually — lambaste the United States and “the puppet army of South Korea” for upcoming annual joint military exercises. Ho hum. Nothing unusual there. Not only do we see this every year, we see it often. Twice Tuesday, and twice Monday, in fact. But …
Telemetry or Guidance?
by | 2010-03-02 | 8 Comments
One of the things that has always stuck in my mind from my childhood addition to science fiction was Robert Heinlein’s explanation of rocket guidance, where a special “cam” was machined to control the trajectory of a rocket every time it took off. The cam would be rotated with a constant speed and its radius …
