This is fantastic!

1958 Map depicting NORAD’s air defense boundaries

I reconstructed the trajectory of the Topol'-ME missile launched from Kapustin Yar at about 1600 UTC today,
so you can see how a rocket flying above Kazakhstan can be seen all over the Middle East. Orange line is rocket trajectory estimate, reasonably accurately to scale.

Interesting declassified memo that mentions the US providing SOSUS data to the Royal Navy during the Falklands. I haven't come across much information about US-UK SOSUS cooperation.

The term 'proliferated' satellite constellations goes back to the late Cold War, but I wish that 'distributed' satellite architectures was used instead.

Declassified UK Joint Intelligence Committee note concerning the Soviet Union’s ability to use a nuclear explosion to disturb communications and early warning systems

Fascinating article by Hui Zhang from Belfer Center about China’s development of its H-bomb. thebulletin.org/2024/04/the-sh…

Special thanks to SSP’s own Charlie Glaser for giving a Wednesday Seminar lecture this afternoon, titled The Theory of the Nuclear Revolution Revisited.

Full lecture: youtube.com/watch?v=yAiFDL…

Many know, but for those who don't. If you are interested in missiles and missile defenses and aren't following Masao Dahlgren you really should be.

It’s not everyday that you get to see the one remaining Brilliant Pebble space-based interceptor from the Strategic Defense Initiative. Thanks to the folks at Lawrence Livermore for hosting me!

The Google Books preview of my book, Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative, is now available. The book will be out in less than 30 days!
books.google.com/books?id=C4HPE…

In the late 1970s there was growing tension between the DoD and DCI over control of national intelligence resources from the National Military Command Center during crises.

In a new article, we investigate the nuclear club and the nascent counterspace club, explaining why and how competing tech-haves navigate in forming alliances to control access to Security Technology Clubs and how emerging tech-haves can still sneak in sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In 1989 the British and French MODs held talks on the military use of the Channel Tunnel, and the plans required to 'militarily deny it'. This file is still closed!

Today at 1pm PST, I'll be presenting with David C. Logan on the 1969 Sino-Soviet Nuclear crisis, moderated by David Holloway CISAC

Really excited to announce that Brian Cuddy and I have established the Macquarie Intelligence Studies Research Group (@mqisrg). We’re looking to further our understanding of all aspects of intelligence and build the profile of intelligence studies as an academic field in AU

Declassified 1952 CIA study on the vulnerability of Soviet submarine cables intended to assist with “locating and severing these lines” in wartime

Yes, historically the effectiveness criteria for US missile defense systems have varied considerably. Buried deep in the archives I found the effectiveness criteria for a first phase strategic defense system (1989). Comprehensive defense was never the goal.

Declassified NSA Cryptolog article from the fall of 1995 on 'SIGINT and the Information Explosion.'

Nikola Tesla’s depiction of war in the future (1922). He predicted “machines of destruction more terrible than anything concocted by the masterminds behind the ‘World War’ armies and navies, will sail under the ocean and thru the skies – with not a man on board”