On Sunday the Makeyev Design Bureau released an image of what the RS-28 Sarmat ICBM will look like. The RS-28 Sarmat is the heavy ICBM replacement for the SS18 and SS19. The image appears above. On Tuesday Russia tested an SS19 ICBM, and reports indicate that it may have tested […]
The shell game, dense pack, warhead fratricide, road mobile ICBMs, it’s all coming back now! It’s hard not to think of the MX missile and the Midgetman road mobile ICBM and the furore they provoked in the late 1970s and early 1980s when thinking about the debate on the Ground […]
On Friday North Korea conducted a, failed, test of the Musudan (Hwasong-10) Medium Range Ballistic Missile, and informative analysis is slowly emerging given the paucity of data. The Musudan is widely seen as being based on Soviet SS-N-6 “Serb” technology (i.e. not Scud). The Musudan has been lengthened to carry […]
29 September marked the birthday of Enrico Fermi, one of the 20th centuries more noted physicists. It was Fermi that posed the famous paradox, since named after him, on the probability of extraterrestrial intelligence. To mark the occasion I reproduce an article on the Fermi paradox with respect to nuclear […]
Public domain satellite imagery shows new construction activity at the Khan Research Laboratories, Kahuta Pakistan, consistent with development of a new uranium enrichment plant. The imagery was obtained on 28 September 2015 and 18 April 2016. According to Jane’s Intelligence Review In addition to being located near to the KRL, […]
Jeffrey Lewis has an interesting article exploring some of the possible technical advances represented by North Korea’s fifth nuclear weapons test. He reminds us of the boast earlier this year, from Kim Jong-un, that North Korea had developed a nuclear warhead capable of delivery by ballistic missile North Korea’s propaganda […]
With what can only be described as great timing 38North, on September 8, reported that the latest (August 27) public domain satellite imagery of the North Korean nuclear test site, at Punggye-ri, indicated renewed activity at the site. Notably, a small number of mining carts are visible on or near […]
The New York Times has just reported that President Obama will likely not pursue a no first use pledge, despite much speculation over the past few months that this was likely. The article, by Sanger and Broad, the two big hitters at The Times on these issues, doubtless is based […]
One of the most expensive nuclear accidents in US history, at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, involved an exploding drum of Plutonium and Americium waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory after it, reportedly, reacted with, you guessed it, kitty litter. According to the Los Angeles Times When a drum […]
The Washington Post recently carried an important article on Ballistic Missile Defense. Essentially, the article reports on moves in Congress to change the official legislative remit of Ballistic Missile Defense, and its potential strategic consequences. There are two that I would like to focus on here, the first of which […]
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