This is a guest post by my colleague Jamie Withorne. Jamie is a Research Assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Her work focuses on emerging technology, North Korea’s sanctions evasion, and North Korea’s nuclear fuel cycle. This is the first of a three part series that aims to provide an in-depth review …
Go Big or Go Home?
by | 2021-06-13 | 3 Comments
Quotes of the week: “Where there is no vision, there is no hope.” — George Washington Carver “The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.” — Sun Tzu The June 16th meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin has generated the expected raft of “shoulds” and “musts.” There is a …
Adios, Open Skies Treaty
by | 2021-06-07 | 2 Comments
Quote of the week: “Virtue signaling is for political show horses, but unbecoming for America.”—John Bolton Steve Liewer of the Omaha World-Herald has been our eyes and ears on the successes, trials, and tribulations of the Open Skies Treaty. I have been granted permission by the World-Herald to reprint his June 5th piece bidding a …
Hyperbolic Hyper Hype
by | 2021-05-28 | No Comments
The hype is real. Maybe its a branding thing, maybe people forget ballistic missiles are a thing, maybe nobody thinks “glider force” sounds cool. But whatever the reason, people keep calling hypersonic glide vehicles fast compared to existing missile systems. Jeffrey and Aaron discuss hypersonic weapons, what people keep getting wrong about them, and why …
