North Korea conducted a military drill beginning around 9am local time on May 4, featuring some newly-developed weapons systems. One of these systems was a never-before-seen-fired short-range ballistic missile (SRBM). Our friends at Planet captured a couple images of one of the SRBM launches. When a pair of images taken in quick succession is arranged …
Robert S. McNamara, Arms Control Hero
by | 2019-05-06 | No Comments
Quote of the Week: “Mr. Prime Minister [Kosygin], if you put a defense in place, we’re going to have to expand our nuclear offensive forces. You may think, as the Congress apparently does, that a proper response to the Soviet defense is a U.S. defense; but I tell you the proper response – and it …
The Establishment, R.I.P., and Next Gen Arms Control
by | 2019-04-29 | No Comments
Verse of the week: “Back and forth, back and forth goes the tock, tock, tock of the orange, bland, ambassadorial face of the moon on the grandfather clock All autumn, the chafe and jar of nuclear war; we have talked our extinction to death I swim like a minnow Behind my studio window — Robert …
KSA and Part 810: Inform Congress
by | 2019-04-28 | No Comments
On April 18, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) published a brief on how the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) allows U.S. nuclear vendor firms to provide assistance and transfer technology to their foreign partners under 10 C.F.R. Part 810 regulations, and also about the basis in U.S. law for Congressional access to information about authorizations …
