“If they get nuclear weapons, we will get nuclear weapons.”
Nuclear Weapons
Marines Return to Historic Pacific Airfield
NoKo Non-Nuclear Blast: A Secret Plea for Help?
North Korea has reacted sharply to criticism over the weekend from the working G8 lunch at Camp David. “All of us agree that North Korea is violating its international obligations and that there is a path for them to rejoin the international community,” President Obama said. “But that objective will not be achieved if they continue …
F-22s: Waiting in the Wings. Again.
Dud Doesn’t Dent Danger
That’s the word from Austin Ramzy in Beijing on Time’s Global Spin blog:
…the ballistic bust does not mean that North Korean threat has lessened significantly. The isolated authoritarian state still possesses significant conventional artillery with which it could attack Seoul, just 55 km south of the demilitarized zone that
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Pffffffft!
After weeks of hype and warnings that the North Korean launch could send rocket debris raining down on U.S. allies including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, Pyongyang’s Unha-3 rocket failed shortly after takeoff and …
The War With Iran Will Have to Wait!
Once again, there’s something – no one will say just what – that the Air Force’s $15 million Massive Ordnance Penetrator can’t do, or can’t do well enough. That’s the 15-ton, Boeing-built bomb the U.S. now has on hand to use against deeply-buried bunkers in places like Iran.
On Thursday, the Air Force awarded this …
Japan Eyes Return To Atomic Bomb Base
TOKYO – It’s not clear if anyone appreciates the irony, but Japan wants to help pay for a new U.S. military base on Tinian island, a former Imperial Army stronghold from which the atomic bombings of Japan were launched in …
“We have agreed with Iran to launch a new round of talks in Istanbul on 14 April. We are very pleased that these talks, which will address the international community´s concerns on the Iranian nuclear programme, are going ahead after more than one year since we last met.”
Support For Japan’s Military Reaches Post-War High
TOKYO – It’s been a tough year for Japan, what with the earthquake and tsunami, North Korean nukes and China’s increasingly aggressive military. But there’s a silver lining for at least one part of Japanese society – …
Iran Plans to Launch “Monkey” Into Space Soon
Talk about back to the future. Tracing the rocket plumes that the U.S., Soviet Union and France blazed a half-century ago, Iran has announced plans to send a monkey into space before September.
“Kavoshgar-5 will carry a biological capsule containing a monkey into space,” Hamid Fazeli, the chief of the of Iranian Space Agency, …
Key Point: Bunker-Busters Come In Both Small and Large Sizes
The reports from Israel that it is seeking 5,000-pound GBU-28 bunker-busters for possible use against Iran makes for exciting reading. One problem: they can’t even dent Iran’s most protected sites. The reports suggest war is …
Making Things Kristol Klear
This is a new documentary about how President Obama hasn’t been allied sufficiently with Israel, going so far, it notes, to discourage Israel from attacking Iran. It’s from an outfit calling itself the Emergency Committee for Israel, which Battleland hadn’t heard of before Monday morning.
We learned of it on the …