I am excited, as always, to be seeing so many old friends at the Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference, even if this year’s agenda leaves me a little cold. Maybe I am just overreacting to the keynote address by Anne Lauvergeon, Chief Executive Officer, AREVA. I have about the same interest in listening to the CEO of …
Another Taepodong Failure
by | 2009-04-05 | 44 Comments
This plot from Google Earth shows the announced splashdown zones and the locations of the splashdowns from a story in the Yomiuri. Credit: David Wright. Based on where the second stage fell, it is clear that the North Korean satellite launch was another failure. Oh-for-three. These guys really suck. NORTHCOM says: Stage one of the …
DPRK: Blip on a Screen
by | 2009-04-04 | 16 Comments
Screen Capture from a FNN Video, click here for the entire video. So, for about five minutes this morning, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces thought North Korea had launched its satellite rocket. (Good thing they didn’t launch anything in response.) One of the interesting things about this false alarm was that it was reportedly seen by …
Subcritical Testing at Lop Nor
by | 2009-04-03 | 2 Comments
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 …
