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 …
FMP Comes Alive
by | 2009-04-12 | 10 Comments
Following up on Geoff’s apt reference to the technology campaign trail, here’s more on Iran’s Fuel Manufacturing Plant, or FMP. We’ve got the wonkporn interior photos, including shots of equipment that happened to be next to politicians. We’ve got statements to the news media about future plans. We’ve got multiple assessments of the significance of …
