Anyone hyping the EMP threat ought to be laughed out of public life…
Tag: nukes
Russia’s newest nuclear ballistic missile submarine will be named… wait for it…. wait for it…. the St. Nicholas. H/t Chet.
Bernard Finel handles the latest attack-Iran nonsense capably, but I’d like to supplement three points: Fabius Maximus refers to General Wald’s post as part of a “years long project
France has acknowledged that it will no longer deploy nuclear weapons on board the Charles De Gaulle, at least under normal circumstances: France no longer deploys nuclear weapons on its aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle under normal circumstances but stores the weapons on land, according to French officials. President Nicolas Sarkozy declared in March 2008 […]
Congratulations of a sort are due India, which just launched its first nuclear ballistic missile submarine. The boat was built with Russian assistance, which makes sense because it kind of looks like
Geoffrey Forden is no longer convinced that North Korea detonated a nuclear device: Let us suppose, for the moment, that the DPRK actually did explode 2,500 tons of TNT instead of a nuclear device. Ho
If you wish to espouse a weakly conceived and difficult to defend policy propositions in a limited space, there’s no better strategy than finding a figure of age and respect to hand down the pronouncements from on high. That way, they acquire a certain gravity without actually having to make any sense. Witness Melanie Kirkpatrick, […]
Speaking of Chiang Kai Shek, I have a short article up at Foreign Policy comparing the Chinese and (purported) Iranian nuclear weapon programs: Even the Soviet bloc worried that the Chinese were crazy
Dick Destiny does the work. Via AG.
Almost certainly yes, but Joshua Pollack lays out some reasons for skepticism. …Dan Nexon has more.
Fox News is reporting this morning that North Korea has declared the existence of its uranium program, and is threatening the weaponize its remaining plutonium. The New York Times confirms the latter,
At this point, knowing that the North Koreans are facing hard limits on fissile material, wouldn’t it make sense just to dare them to conduct additional nuclear tests?