North Korea is rightly considered an international pariah that not only starves its population while pampering its dictator but also thumbs its nose at the international community’s demand that it not test nuclear bombs or continue its missile development. It is therefore, perhaps, strange to think why the DPRK tested its two nuclear bombs underground. …
2009 Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat
by | 2009-06-09 | 10 Comments
Hans has the new National Air and Space Intelligence Center Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat. Lots and lots of pretty pictures, especially of the DF-31, as well as new information. (Lest you think I just love missile-porn — which I course I do — the value of pictures is the IC identification of the particular …
Show me the FOGBANK
by | 2009-06-07 | 4 Comments
The plot thickens, thanks to Frank Munger’s continued pursuit of FOGBANK. Munger has a pair of blog posts (Is there more to the story about the W76? Y-12: fogbank produced in Spring 2008) that put NNSA and POGO on a collision course. Only one of them can be accurately describing the reason for the delayed …
Ike's Nuclear Legacy
by | 2009-06-06 | 13 Comments
I proudly bear the name of an uncle who died at Anzio. The military cemetery nearby at Netunno cradles almost as many GI’s as those buried in Normandy. As we remember D-Day and pay homage to those who fought on distant shores, let’s open the shoe box files to Dwight David Eisenhower. Ike’s most unfortunate …
