Cross-posted from Verification, Implementation and Compliance. The monitors have been switched off. The cameras are being removed from their mounts, and the seals are broken. The guesthouse just off the main site no longer houses the IAEA three-person team or the four-person US experts group. By now, the equipment is probably being packed into boxes …
DPRK: Cobra Ball vs SBX
by | 2009-04-15 | 13 Comments
A number of us have been wondering why the US didn’t send the Sea-Based X-band (SBX) radar out to see (sorry, I couldn’t resist that!) the Unha-2’s launch. One of the best arguments I’ve heard comes from Victoria Samson who thinks that the real reason it didn’t put to sea was it is constantly undergoing …
Russia's EW Is Worse Than You Thought
by | 2009-04-14 | 22 Comments
Cross-posted from totalwonkerr.com. Last week’s obsessive recapping of the Unha-2 launch provided an occasion to ask why Russian officials have such odd perceptions of North Korean missile and nuclear activity, and what that would imply for the actual use of GMD by the United States. Hint: not so good. Just a few days later, the …
Where Nuclear Weapons Go To Die
by | 2009-04-14 | 5 Comments
Meri Lugo and I have a short piece on nuclear weapons dismantlement in The Argument, Foreign Policy’s “provocation about global politics, economics, and ideas, written by people who shape them.” Speaking in Prague on April 5, U.S. President Barack Obama called the thousands of nuclear weapons sitting in world arsenals “the most dangerous legacy of …
