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Tag Archives: Ballistic Missile Defense
Kim Rattles the Sabre: North Korea Unveils a Romeo Class SSB Mod and Conducts Two KN-23 SRBM Tests.
What an extraordinary week it was, with those of us following all things nucleus kept busy by one development after the next. As usual Kim Jong-un was front and centre, however there was more to it than North Korea this … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms Control, Ballistic Missile Defense, Missiles, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons
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North Korea’s KN-23 SRBM and Strategic Stability
It’s not the KN-23 SRBM alone that’s a threat to strategic stability on the Korean peninsula. That threat comes from a mutual strategic interaction between the US, South Korea, and North Korea. Continue reading
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Tagged Arms Control, Ballistic Missile Defense, Missiles, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons
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It Takes Two Baby: North Korea’s Second Iskander Like SRBM Test and Strategic Stability
The escalation ladder we are climbing with North Korea is starting to take some serious and some ominous shape. Continue reading
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Tagged Ballistic Missile Defense, Missiles, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons
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What Happened at Hanoi, What You’re Supposed to Think Did, and What Should Happen Now
What you’re supposed to think happened at Hanoi, didn’t happen at Hanoi and Donald Trump is no Forrest Gump because though a moron Gump wasn’t a hustler. Continue reading
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Tagged Ballistic Missile Defense, Missiles, North Korea, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Trump
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Dissuasion and the Logical Fallacy in Trump’s Missile Defense Review
The 2019 Missile Defense Review is based on a growing missile threat, yet the Review claims missile defence dissuades states from growing their arsenals. Continue reading
Posted in International Relations and Global Security, Philosophy and Science
Tagged Ballistic Missile Defense, Missiles, Space
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Full Spectrum FU: On Trump’s Withdrawal from the INF Treaty
Hitherto in the nuclear age humanity has relied upon a thin margin of survival provided by arms control, for arms control has tended to provide some measure of strategic stability and some reduction of nuclear dangers. For the most part … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms Control, Ballistic Missile Defense, Global Security, International relations, Missiles, Nuclear Weapons, Trump
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Framing North Korea’s Solid Fuel Missile Programme as First Strike Weapons
The week has seen further developments regarding North Korea’s solid fuel missile programme. I have already written about some of those developments here. Basically, it appears that North Korea is upgrading and preparing to upgrade production facilities associated with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms Control, Ballistic Missile Defense, Deterrence, Global Security, International relations, Missiles, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons
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The Road to Denuclearisation in Korea: Strategic Stability and Minimum Deterrence Now, Denuclearisation Through Economic Leverage Later
Rather than focus on denuclearisation the emphasis for now should be on mutual and balanced conventional force reductions on the Korean peninsula. Washington’s economic clout gives it leverage to demand denuclearisation thereafter. Denuclearisation continues to dominate the airwaves, with President … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms Control, Ballistic Missile Defense, Deterrence, economic growth, Economics, Global Security, International relations, Missiles, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Trump
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Trump’s Effective Withdrawal from the JCPOA and the 123 Agreement Negotiations with Saudi Arabia
President Trump’s decision to not extend the waiver on US sanctions on Iran, officially not a US withdrawal but in effect one, means the United States is no longer in compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms Control, Ballistic Missile Defense, Global Security, International relations, Iran, Missiles, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Uranium Enrichment
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Russia Reportedly Tests Nudol ASAT Weapon
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms Control, Ballistic Missile Defense, Deterrence, Global Security, Missiles, Space
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