Author: James Chamberlin

  • Israeli Attack Hit Iranian Nuclear Site

    Israeli Attack Hit Iranian Nuclear Site

    Axios reports that the Israeli attack on Iran in late October hit a secret site that was doing research on plastic explosives needed to set off a nuclear weapon. Axios says that because this was a secret facility, Iran did not acknowledge it was hit, but the strike was also…

  • North Korea Tests Big Missile

    North Korea Tests Big Missile

    According to NBC news on October 31 North Korea launched an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the United States. This test went higher than previous tests but it does not appear that it was a significant advance beyond previous tests, although it may have used a new solid…

  • Antony Blinken’s Tour as Secretary of State

    Antony Blinken’s Tour as Secretary of State

    Wired magazine has published an evaluation of Antony Blinen’s tenure as Secretary of State. It says: Blinken, 62, once thought he might become a musician—or maybe, even less lucratively, a journalist. Instead he has spent virtually his entire career in the Washington foreign policy establishment, which is something of a family…