Yesterday, I wondered if the White House fact sheet on the START Follow-on was not the Joint Understanding itself. Sometimes, of course, the press flacks just slap “fact sheet” on something and send it out the door. In this case, however, the fact sheet appears to differ substantially from the actual Joint Understanding. Pavel Podvig …
Joint Statement on Missile Defense Issues
by | 2009-07-07 | 14 Comments
Since Jeff and Pavel already have done such a nice job explicating the “Joint Understanding for the START Follow-On Treaty,” I’d thought I’d chime in with a couple of thoughts about its poor cousin, the “Joint Statement by Dmitry A. Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, and Barack Obama, President of the United States of …
Follow on to START
by | 2009-07-06 | 5 Comments
Well, we have a Joint Understanding for the START Follow-on Treaty. I observe that Reuters, in one of those irritating self indulgent news analysis pieces, frames the question “Spin or Deep Cut?” (The article, by Guy Faulconbridge is actually pretty good; not as bad as the headline would suggest.) I think this outline is neither …
DPRK Unveils New 2 Stage Missile
by | 2009-07-06 | 26 Comments
It is often very hard to ferret out hard information from media reports. That is why it is so nice to be associated with so many hard working wonk-readers who pick up real information. Wonk-reader Tal Inbar sends these two sets of photos (the above and a montage of images) of the launch of one …
