2010 Nuclear Posture Review

BySteeljawscribe 6 April 2010

Released today:
2010 Nuclear Posture Review Report
More to follow after I’ve had a chance to read/assess and balance vs QDR and BMDR

Geopolitics | Missile Defense | Nuclear weapons

The Missiles of Winter – Part II: Rampant Proliferation
BySteeljawscribe 22 February 200922 February 2009

Previous: The Missiles of Winter (I): International Conventions March 1985.Â In the high desert, west of Tehran, an element of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Air Force (IRGC AF) is going about their business in the early morning darkness.Â The object of their attention is a SCUD-B SRBM fixed to a MAZ-543P transporter-erector launcher, both…

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Nuclear weapons

“Доверяй, но проверяй” (“Trust But Verify”)
BySteeljawscribe 11 February 201012 October 2014

Votkinsk Machine Building Plant. Located about 8.5 km to the east of the birthplace of Pytor Illyich Tchaikovsky, in the Russian Federation Republic of Udmurtia, is an industrial facility whose name, in typical Soviet fashion, obscures the products made there. It is a name unfamiliar to most outside of the arms control, intelligence or…

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Nuclear weapons

Nuclear Decisions (Part II)
BySteeljawscribe 24 June 200724 June 2007

(Nuclear Decisions, Part I – scene setters) Following review of the current climate insofar as nuclear weapons policy/strategy was concerned (from the viewpoint of India), discussion turned to the course the nation should take. One of the main points of concern turned on the topic of when a nuclear response was appropriate, particularly…

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Air Warfare | Nuclear weapons

Russian Tu-95MS Bombers Set Flight Duration Record
BySteeljawscribe 3 August 20105 August 2010

Perusing the usual pull from a variety of sources, happened across this item: Two Russian Tu-95MS Bear-H strategic bombers have carried out a record-breaking 40-hour patrol over three oceans, an Air Force spokesman said on Thursday, RIA Novosti reported. “The Tu-95MS bombers carried out patrols over the Arctic, the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans and…

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history lessons | Nuclear weapons

One Second After – Of EMP and Post-Apocolypse America (Part 1)
BySteeljawscribe 18 August 200918 August 2009

9 July 1962.Â At Johnston Atoll, a scrap of coral in a remote part of the Pacific, a Thor IRBM stands on the pad as launch preparations are carried out.Â Loaded with test equipment, its prime payload is a W-49/Mk-4 RV payload.Â The target, however, is not to be found on a map or chart….

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Missile Defense | Nuclear weapons | space

The Missiles of Winter (I): International Conventions
BySteeljawscribe 19 February 2009

If news reports coming from South Korea and echoed through the West are to be believed, North Korea is moving towards another attempt at launching a Taepo Dong – 2 IR/ICBM, ostensibly as a space launch vehicle (SLV).Â This would be the third such attempt, with previous attempts in July 2006 and Sept 1998 ending…

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