On the radar: Sanctions in NDAA; Hagel nomination; Japan’s Plutonium Problems; Los Alamos security; Richardson and Schmidt in Pyongyang; Eating grass; and Reagan’s awesomely bad Soviet space program brief.
On the radar: Costs and consequences; Nuclear language almost scuttles New START, defense bill; Defense delay; How to talk to Iran; CTBT update; Elements of a deal with Iran; Patriots to Turkey; and Doomsday isn’t cheap, thankfully.
On the radar: NDAA signing statement; Un-stalling negotiations; Safety concerns at Bushehr; Context of Kim’s speech; and Air Force opens new missile school.
On the radar: Albright and Ivanov on US-Russia relations; Defense in the deal; Speeches and tunnels; De-alerting; Negotiations and politics with Iran; Arms race in S. Asia; and Troubled logic on B-61.
On the radar: Actual existential threats; North Korea-Iran cooperation; Suspect uranium enrichment facilities in DPRK; Dealing with Khamenei; Y-12 break-in still evident; MidEast WMD-free zone; and Celebrating the apocalypse in a Russian bunker.
On the radar: Analysis of the NDAA; Trident report; Dominoes not falling; Iran talks update; Iran nuclear graphs, revisited; Park presidency; Costs of war; and North Korea’s first video game.
On the radar: Counting Russia’s nonstrategic warheads; $633 billion defense bill; Blind spots and North Korea’s launch; The adaptative part of the phased approach; Senate losing nuclear expertise; and the Arms Control Person(s) of the Year.
On the radar: Pincus asks the question; Abbasi posturing on 20 percent; 2nd term priorities; Reengaging on DPRK; Missile debris; British sub went down to Georgia; and Baneberry, 42 years later.