Jane’s Defense Weekly, a premier source on this sort of thing, says that if the initial reports of a .55 kT (half a kiloton) blast are correct “it would suggest that the test had been a “pre- or post-detonation” event (ie a failure), as it had been anticipated that North Korea’s first nuclear test would have a significantly higher yield.”
When it rains it pours. For some more than others.
NYT/CBS: Bush at 34%.
With yesterday’s apparent nuclear test in North Korea, foreign policy again comes back to center stage. And fortuitously this week, TPMCafe Book Club is discussing the new Princeton Project on National Security’s final report: “Forging a World of Liberty Under Law, U.S. National Security In The 21st Century.”
Participating in the discussion are John Ikenberry, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Daniel Drezner, David Rieff, Stephen Walt and Peter Trubowitz
To Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), it’s just “not clear” if he alerted the Republican leadership about Mark Foley’s page problem back in 2000 — maybe it will become clearer when he talks to investigators? That and other news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran begins his discussion about the Green Zone and the Coalition Provisional Authority rule in Iraq at TPMCafe’s Table for One.
Exclusive: Lieberman-Sharpton smackdown at Election Central.