Israeli Rocket Motor Test
On April 20, an Israeli twitter user posted a video of a large smoky cloud to his Twitter account with the comment "A mysterious explosion in northern Israel." Jeffrey and his team tracked down the "m...
6 Mai 202117min
A Tale of Two Launches
North Korea has been active the past few weeks, launching a set of cruise missiles (probably just coastal defense systems) and a separate set of ballistic missiles (which look like stretched KN23 shor...
1 Apr 202143min
Making the Easy Stuff Hard: Re-joining the JCPOA
Biden campaigned on rejoining the JCPOA, but some of that enthusiasm has dried up since he took office. Aaron and Jeffrey debate what's going on, strategies for negotiating re-joining the JCPOA, and ...
11 Mar 202131min
New START and the Future of Arms Control
President Biden has extended New START for five more years. But what are we going to do with those years? How to we actually advance stability? Aaron and Jeffrey talk about the steps necessary to secu...
26 Feb 202133min
Iran's New Space Launcher: Zoljanah
Iran unveiled a new (mostly) solid-propellant space launcher, the Zoljanah! But it looks....different than the other space launchers. Besides having a new fuel type, the Zoljanah may not have many IRG...
18 Feb 202130min
Unravelling the Israeli Ballistic Missile Program
Israel maintains a technologically advanced but understudied ballistic missile arsenal. Jeffrey and Aaron dive into the French, South African, and American influences on the arsenal, how to model the...
5 Feb 202139min
North Korea's Next Nukes
North Korea put on *another* parade, during the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea. Kim Jong Un dropped some fascinating details about what the DPRK has allegedly completed, and what they ma...
25 Jan 202142min
Fancy Ass SWERVE
On Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time, the U.S. Air Force, in partnership with the Strategic Capabilities Office, conducted a flight test of a prototype conventionally-configured groun...
12 Jan 202153min
