‘Tis the season for giving thanks – at least for U.S. readers of ACW. One of the many things I am thankful for is the opportunity to have had conversations about arms control with McGeorge Bundy. He was one of the principle architects of the Vietnam War. I was one of 10,000 people arrested during …
China's Noisy New Boomer
by | 2009-11-24 | 15 Comments
This has taken me a couple of days to get to, but Hans Kristensen penned a nice post (China’s Noisy Nuclear Submarines) about China’s new Type 094 ballistic missile submarine, based on an Office of Naval Intelligence document entitled The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy: A Modern Navy with Chinese Characteristics. Three things stand out: …
Safir Fin, Trajectory & Staging Details
by | 2009-11-23 | 4 Comments
click on the image for a larger version Iran’s satellite launch pad position and orientation as determined in Jane’s Intelligence Review (G. Forden, “Smoke and Mirrors: Analyzing the Iranian Missile Test, April 2008, pp. 47-51). The actual image overlay has been replaced with a “cartoon” to avoid copy right issues. A not to scale missile …
The Problem of Redundancy Problem
by | 2009-11-20 | 4 Comments
Michael Krepon, in both his recent ACW article and in the Stimson Center Occasional Paper on the 1990 Indo-Pak crisis , does a thorough job of discussing the problems associated with some the conclusions raised in Seymour Hersh’s past investigative work on nuclear weapons and Pakistan. Since I cannot add anything new to that discussion, …
