Ballistic missile guidance is generally well understood. Ballistic missiles get to where they’re going using a variety of navigational tools, from satellite sensors to gyroscope inertial guidance. A normal, non-hysterical missile flies up into the atmosphere and begins its descent onto target following a ballistic trajectory. But, what if I were to tell you that …
Iran’s Pathway to the Bomb
by | 2025-07-13 | No Comments
Aaron and Jeffrey finally deconflict their schedules to talk about the outcome of the Israeli-Iranian war, Iran’s pathway back to the bomb, and why they’re both irritated with the “fix it or nix it crowd.” Support us over at Patreon.com/acwpodcast!
Institute of Atomic Energy in Pyongyang
by | 2025-07-10 | 3 Comments
A post written with Allison Berke… While the locations of many of North Korea’s most important nuclear facilities are known to the general public, one of North Korea’s more obscure locations has remained a mystery. In the mid-1980s, North Korea created an Institute for Atomic Energy in Pyongyang to house a 20 MeV cyclotron imported …
Recalling two mentors
by | 2025-07-02 | 1 Comment
1. Jonathan D. Pollack My father, Jonathan Pollack, died at the end of May after what’s politely called a long convalescence. He had worked over several decades as a scholar of Chinese foreign and defense policy. After completing his PhD at the University of Michigan, he took a postdoc at Harvard’s Center for Science and …
