The Second Coming of MIRVs
by | May 12, 2016 | No Comments
If the Pentagon is to be believed, the second coming of MIRVs is upon us, this time in Asia, with China’s deployment of the DF-5B missile. The advent of MIRVs in the first nuclear age was ruinous to prospects for keeping a tight lid on the superpower strategic arms competition. Once the barn doors were …
Nuclear Weapons and the Laws of War (cont.)
by | May 11, 2016 | 5 Comments
Note to readers: Dr. Justin Anderson continues the conversation about nuclear weapons and the laws of war with this contribution. Rejoinders are, of course, welcome. Justin is a Research Fellow at National Defense University’s Center for the Study of WMD. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect …
Producing Tritium in North Korea
by | May 10, 2016 | 18 Comments
Jeffrey has asked me to post a blog written by Hugh Chalmers, who works with me here in London. It covers possible ways in which North Korea could produce tritium for its nuclear weapons programme. It first appeared in Trust & Verify, which is our centre’s quarterly publication. I’m not going to plug Trust & …
Unilateral or Bilateral Reductions?
by | May 3, 2016 | 10 Comments
The next US president faces lots of questions relating to nuclear weapons and nuclear threat reduction. Here’s one: Should the United States unilaterally reduce strategic forces deemed to be in excess of the Pentagon’s needs, or wait instead for an agreement to proceed in parallel with the Russian Federation? The arguments to proceed unilaterally with …
To Hiroshima (cont.)
by Michael Krepon | April 27, 2016
The Advantage of Being the Weaker, Nuclear-Armed State
by Michael Krepon | April 24, 2016
Russia, China, and the US discuss the Norks
by Aaron Stein | April 20, 2016
To Hiroshima
by Michael Krepon | April 10, 2016
New DPRK ICBM Engine
by Jeffrey Lewis | April 9, 2016
Retrospectives on MIRVing in the First Nuclear Age
by Michael Krepon | April 5, 2016
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Founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Lewis, Arms Control Wonk was the first blog on arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation. It has since been a home to everything that is "too wonky or obscene" for publication about nuclear weapons. The site now features thirty-plus contributors with an archive of over three thousand articles.
Latest Podcast
Jeffrey and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies have been busy hosting a series of track 1.5 dialogues in the foggy bit of California. Under the direction of Stephanie Lieggi, CNS brought together American and Chinese officials for a much broader conversation about nonproliferation that was hijacked by the North Koreans - sorta like this podcast. Earlier that same week, a group of Russian and American officials met to discuss the DPRK nuclear threat. In this latest addition the podcast, Aaron and Jeffrey discuss these two track 1.5 events, in addition to our mutual love of Santa Lucia Pinot Noir and whales (tune in to find out how we worked in these last two topics).
Here is the write-up of our Russia meeting:
