If you are a friend of the blog, you might have heard of Iran’s program to develop a solid propellant space launcher, the relationship of the space launch program to Iran’s missile ambitions and the 2011 explosion that wiped out most of the personnel associated with it. To make a long story short, at some …
Where Are We? And Where Do We go from Here?
by | 2020-02-09 | 7 Comments
Lyric of the Week: “There’ll be no healing from the art of double dealing. Armageddon’s back in town again” — Patterson Hood, Drive-By Truckers, The Unraveling album Note to Readers: Here’s what I had to say to the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters on January 30th: We’re not doing well, obviously. But …
Possible ICBM Modernization Underway at Sundian
by | 2020-02-05 | No Comments
This article was co-authored with Decker Eveleth. Decker Eveleth is a junior at Reed College studying International Comparative Policy Studies. He sometimes moonlights as the disembodied head of an Iranian weapons designer. China may be modernizing some very old ICBM sites. An interesting development has taken place at Sundian, historically a PLARF ICBM launch area, …
NATO Expansion and the Great Unraveling of Arms Control
by | 2020-02-03 | 2 Comments
Quotes of the week: “An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it.” — Walter Lippmann, Today and Tomorrow column, August 5, 1952 “An alliance is effective only to the extent that it reflects a common purpose and that it represents an accretion of strength to its members.” — Henry …
