North Korea announced today that they have conducted test of a test of a nuclear weapon. Coming on the heals of their failed satellite launch attempt April 5th, the DPRK made sure to point out in their announcement that this one had a higher yield than their last test. Estimates first varied on the yield …
Essential Reading?
by | 2009-05-23 | 8 Comments
Michael Krepon here … Last month, Foreign Policy magazine’s website ran a series of top ten best and worst book lists drawn up mostly by policy-oriented academics. I tried my hand at the best books ever written on arms control and nuclear weapons, drawing from the courses I teach at the University of Virginia. My …
Sejil Significance
by | 2009-05-21 | 22 Comments
I’ve been asked to try to express the significance of the Sejil launch. At first, I was given a choice for what was the most significant aspect, from a technical point of view: -The staging? -The fact that it was a solid propellant missile? -A reportedly new guidance system? All of those are, of course, …
Herbert F. York (1921-2009)
by | 2009-05-21 | 11 Comments
We’ve lost Herb York. Herbert Frank York, founding chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and a world-renowned physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb as a young researcher and later championed arms control, died May 19 at Thornton Hospital in San Diego, Ca. He was 87. The guy was a giant. I am …
