I am off to Cambridge for less than 24 hours to participate in a workshop entitled, “Getting to Zero: US and Chinese Perspectives on Near Term Cooperative Steps to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons.” I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about China’s efforts in terms of stockpile stewardship, remanufacture, modernization, what-have-you. The …
DPRK Launch: Things to Look For
by | 2009-04-02 | 15 Comments
Weather conditions over the Korean peninsula look like they favor a Saturday, 4 April 2009 launch. Hopefully, we will see something more of the launch than the 10 seconds or so of video that came out for the Tae’podong 1 launch in 1998. So, what should the casual observer look for? Here is my list: …
Belated Nuclear Forensics April Fools
by | 2009-04-02 | 4 Comments
This bit of wit ended up in my inbox, by way of Nathan Pyles: ADVANCEMENT IN NUCLEAR FORENSICS AP – On April 1, 2009 the Department of Energy (DOE) will announce a tremendous advancement in the science of nuclear weapons forensics. By embedding a unique signature element into each batch of nuclear material, all nuclear …
Chinese Nuclear Posture and Force Mod
by | 2009-04-01 | 1 Comment
The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies has published a new occasional paper published by (Engaging China and Russia on Nuclear Disarmament Occasional Paper No. 15, Cristina Hansell and William C. Potter, eds.) that includes a commissioned paper by yours truly. The paper, Chinese Nuclear Posture and Force Modernization (pp 37-46), is something I have …
