It is finally here! Two years after seeing posters for the Pukguksong-3 during Kim Jong Un’s visit to the Chemical Material Institute of the Academy of Defense Science in 2017, the North Korea has finally tested the next generation of its submarine launched ballistic missiles. Joseph Dempsey of the International Institute of Strategic Studies returns to talk …
No Use is Stronger Than No First Use
by | 2019-10-06 | 11 Comments
Quote of the week: “The earth — its cities and its forests in particular — is like a well-laid fire. If you light it with enough nuclear matches, it will burn, and as it burns it will fill the atmosphere with smoke and plunge much of the world into a frigid darkness for several months.” …
Impeachment and Arms Control
by | 2019-09-30 | 5 Comments
Quote of the week: “In politics, words are the coin of the realm. Used judiciously, they can build political capital, coalesce a public consensus, or enrich a nation. But when frittered away or ineffectively employed, words in political life can bankrupt a candidate, sell out a policy, or even dissolve a government. — James A. …
Whatever Flots Russia’s Boat: The World’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant Goes Operational
by | 2019-09-25 | No Comments
Co-authored by Blake A., CNS Graduate Research Assistant In April of this year, Russia announced the commissioning of the world’s first and only floating nuclear power plant (FNPP). The ship, named the Akademik Lomonosov, recently moved to its permanent mooring station in Pevek, a port in the Arctic Circle (69.706101°, 170.289877°). Satellite images captured the …
