Yesterday, I tweeted some big news from the Carnegie Conference: DepSecState Steinberg announced that Biden will be responsible for overseeing START Follow-on and CTBT ratification. I had heard rumors to that effect — hey, he is the former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, it would be weird if there weren’t rumors — but …
DPRK: What Difference does a Minute Make?
by | 2009-04-08 | 5 Comments
click on the image for a larger version Or, to be more precise, 44 seconds. For those of you very few who can possibly muster enough interested in reading a third posting on this subject, DigitalGlobe has just told Globalsecurity.org the exact time the contrail image was taken: 2:31:16 GMT. (I have to thank Tim …
DPRK: ICBM or Space Launch Vehicle?
by | 2009-04-07 | 21 Comments
click on the image for a larger version Unfortunately, there was a mistake in the range of the original plots. (These things happen when you rush to get things put up on the blog as soon as possible. Im sorry about that!) The observed pitch angle is still very shallow but less so that I …
Russia Eyes North Korea
by | 2009-04-07 | 8 Comments
Cross-posted from TotalWonkerr.com. Few things are more curious than how senior Russian officials have described the more spectacular North Korean missile and nuclear developments of recent years. Compared to Japan, South Korea, and the U.S., the Russians are outliers. First, recall the multiple missile launches of July 5, 2006. The synoptic view is that North …
