Abraham Kaplan wasn’t addressing national security, but what he wrote in 1964 is broadly applicable and still fresh today: I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. Transposed to adulthood, that principle …
Stanton Fellowships
by | 2010-01-26 | 1 Comment
For regular readers who also happen to be pre-doctoral or post-doctoral acadmics, the Stanton Foundation has funded a series of fellowships in nuclear security. Here is a list of participating institutions: ✽ Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ✽ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC ✽ Center for Security …
Japan Hates TLAM-N
by | 2010-01-25 | 6 Comments
Well, well, well. Japanese Foreign Minister Okada sent a letter, dated December 24, the explicitly denies Japan wants the United States to retain the archaic Nuclear Tomahawk. (Regular readers know that I find the Nuclear Tomahawk to be largely irrelevant to extended deterrence and useless and therefore not credible.) Okada’s letter is in Japanese, but …
Chinese BMD Test: Illuminated by the Sun?
by | 2010-01-23 | 4 Comments
click on the image for a larger version These two views show a target warhead 350 km directly above the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 7:45 pm (local time) on 11 January 2010. The image on the left shows what the target warhead (with an altitude of 350 km) would see if it looks at …
