Launch a missile, get a podcast. North Korea launched a short-range missile over the weekend and a Planet satellite was there to see it. Jeffrey and Anne discuss the one in a million picture, the missile itself and what it might mean for the final fully verified denuclearization of North Korea as agreed (or not) …
Holy Smokes: North Korea’s Missile Launch in 3D
by | 2019-05-07 | No Comments
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 …
