The war in Syria is simply an obscenity, waged by weak and miserable men. That observation is how any discussion on developments in Syria should proceed, and so it is that I begin this discussion of the April 14 air and missile strikes launched against targets in Syria by the […]
Doubtless we have all seen the report of a sixth test by Russia of the Nudol, which the United States intelligence community assesses to be a direct ascent anti-satellite weapon or ASAT. The report comes to us courtesy of Ankit Panda of The Diplomat and is based on credible official […]
When it comes to the gathering nuclear diplomacy with North Korea the surprises are coming thick and fast. I submit that this might be a problem. The latest instalment was the surprise summit meeting between Kim Jong-un and Xi Jinping in Beijing. We saw a special train make its way […]
To imagine the ideal society is easy, to bring it about is hard. That is as true as it is cruel, and it is a dilemma that revolutionaries have faced from time immemorial. One aspect of that dilemma is the brute fact, neglected as brute facts often are, that one […]
Those who have read my analyses of North Korea have long known I have long argued that one of the goals of North Korea’s nuclear programme, seemingly paradoxically, is the improvement of relations with the United States. I am even cited in a book as so arguing, so there! The […]
“What’s he going to do, drop a nuclear reactor on London?” So thought Niels Bohr when Werner Heisenberg showed him a drawing of what appeared to be a nuclear reactor during a mysterious meeting of the pair in Copenhagen during the war. That meeting still puzzles historians of science and […]
Among nuclear weapon states there exists a subset that could be said to constitute a nuclear complex. A nuclear weapons complex consists of states that possess an intercontinental nuclear targeting capability, a capability that might see the states of the complex interact in advertent and inadvertent ways. North Korea, from […]
Thomas Kuhn is most well known for developing a model of scientific revolutions, the plural is important, which to no small degree considers sociological factors to be significant to any explanation of the shift from normal to revolutionary science. One of the more controversial of Kuhn’s claims, flowing from the […]
The 2017 North Korean military parade to mark the 105th birthday of Kim Il-sung had us talking of TELs and so has the February 2018 parade on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People’s Army, although for different reasons. According to one account, I recall reading, when […]
From time to time we hear from conservative hawks, both within and without the Trump administration, that North Korea does not have a nuclear weapons programme to deter the United States, rather, North Korea seeks a strategic capability to compel the reunification of the Korean peninsula on Pyongyang’s terms. That’s […]
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