Avatar photoAfter WMD Use, Then What?

Verse of the week: “Spell the spiel of cause and effect,/ Ride the long rail of fact after fact;/ What curled the plume in the drake’s tail/ And put the white ring round his neck?” — Wendell Berry, “For the Explainers” The best way to extend and strengthen norms is to abide by them. The …

Avatar photoTwo Halls Enter – One Sub Leaves

North Korea’s new SSB assembly location is identified at second construction hall.

Avatar photoNorth Korean Uranium Conversion: History and Process, Part 1

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 …

Avatar photoGo Big or Go Home?

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 …