The People’s Liberation Army Rocket Forces used to be a nearly opaque organization to all but a few open-source researchers. Now, increased availability of satellite-imagery and public media enable open-source exploitation and tracking of PRC missile forces like never before. Decker Eveleth joins Jeffrey and Scott to discuss open-source tracking PRC missile brigades, his geolocated …
The Covid-19 and Nuclear Plagues
by | 2020-04-13 | 2 Comments
Poem of the week: “Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw little that is Good Steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is call’d Evil I saw hastening to merge itself And become lost and dead.” – Walt Whitman, “Roaming in Thought” Will this wretched virus help us to take more effective …
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something…Yellow?
by | 2020-04-10 | 1 Comment
This is a guest post from my colleague Margaret Croy. Dual Use in the DPRK: Uranium Extraction from Phosphate Fertilizer Factories Last June, while going through Google Earth and trying to geolocate some of the facilities linked to North Korea’s nuclear fuel cycle, I bumped into some of my old research on nuclear safeguards challenges …
Mort Halperin and the Okinawa Decision
by | 2020-04-10 | No Comments
Mort Halperin a giant as an academic and a policy practitioner. And he’s working on a memoir that covers his sixty year career in foreign policy. Mort played an important role in the US decision to revert Okinawa to Japanese control without nuclear weapons — a case study Jeffrey teaches in is class on decision-making. …
