You know how people dig throwback jerseys? I was surprised when I saw the cover the Bob Zarate’s edited volume on Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Nuclear Heuristics. It’s a throwback cover, directly referencing Roberta Wohlstetter’s classic, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Of course, the cover photo for Pearl Harbor shows the US fleet as a …
Revisiting China’s Early Warhead Designs
by | 2009-01-26 | 14 Comments
I have a new toy: it’s called HyperCFD and it calculates a number of interesting quantities for bodies of rotation that are moving faster than the speed of sound. I bought it because I was interested in the stability of the “reentry body” associated with the DF-2 which Jeffrey used to discuss the design (and …
10,000 comments and counting
by | 2009-01-26 | 10 Comments
A milestone for the Wonk yesterday: 10,000 comments submitted from readers! The 10,000th comment came from Major Lemon who asked whether Semipalatinsk stills glows in the dark. Something oddly appropriate about that… So hats off to Jeffrey who started this blog (and whose it still is, after all) but, most of all to you, our …
Test Ban Verification
by | 2009-01-24 | 9 Comments
If you are like me, you were no doubt very excited about the first-ever CTBTO on-site inspection exercise at Semipalatinsk. (Rebecca Johnson turned in a some wonderful dispatches for the Bulletin, while Oliver Meier had a nice write-uP for Arms Control Today.) Well, Andreas Persbo actually got to participate. Andreas will be in town this …
