One of the many benefits of foreign travel is discovering what hotel nightstands offer as their equivalent to the Gideon Bible. In 1996, while spending the night at a hotel near Narita airport awaiting a morning flight to Beijing, I opened the drawer to find The Teachings of the Buddha. Can the sufferings of arms …
North Korea's Yongbyon Complex
by | 2009-08-13 | 2 Comments
Jon Herskovitz of Reuers penned an odd little news analysis the other day suggesting that North Korea might start from scratch on its bomb program, shifting from the well-developed infrastructure for producing plutonium at Yongbyon to an Iran-like centrifuge program. This is nuts. The entire article hangs on the following speculation by an unnamed South …
Forget the Posture Commission, OK?
by | 2009-08-11 | 17 Comments
Should the Nuclear Posture Review use the the Final Report of the Strategic Posture Commission, led by Bill Perry and James Schlesinger, as a starting point? That question was recently raised at the Huffington Post by Joe Cirincione (right), who argued that the Strategic Posture Commission (also know as Perry-Schlesinger) is not an appropriate place …
Will ROK Overfly Japan?
by | 2009-08-11 | 25 Comments
The launch of South Korea’s “indigenous” space launch vehicle (KSLV-1) has once again been postponed, this time to around August 19th; presumably due to weather issues. I haven’t been able learn the intended orbit (other than its going to be LEO, or low Earth orbit). So it is an interesting question of whether or not …
