The Defense Intelligence Agency concludes “an early-generation warhead weighing 650-750 kg is the best Pyongyang could achieve.”
North Korea Will Test Nuclear Weapon
by | 2005-05-09 | 9 Comments
A North Korean official told a delegation of Japanese academics that North Korea will test a nuclear weapon. The Washington Post reports: Yasuhiko Yoshida, a former U.N. proliferation expert and North Korea specialist at Osaka University of Economics and Law, said in a telephone interview that he had held two discussions on May 3 with …
NFIRE May Carry Kill Vehicle After All
by | 2005-05-07 | No Comments
MDA may delay the June 2006 launch of the Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) to add a classified payload—a payload that sounds suspiciously like the kill vehicle MDA promised to remove.
ISG Bungles Iraqi Scientist Interviews
by | 2005-05-05 | 1 Comment
Nature reports that the US bungled post-war interrogations of Iraqi scientists, to the detriment of US nonproliferation goals. In his memoir, Iraqi centrifuge engineer Mahdi Obeidi recounts a series of Kafka-esque events that ensued after he tried to contact Coalition forces.
