James Palmer of the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment joins the ACW trio to talk about the importance of 3D modelling and data visualization, including recreations of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site and virtual reality training simulations.

Links of Note, Courtesy of James Palmer:

1. Enhanced briefings for a CTBTO On-site Inspection SnT2017  (Palmer and Stevanović).
2. How to put technical data into an enhanced briefing (Palmer and Stevanović).
   • Posters with example images (click ‘Download Poster’ on page):
   • https://ctnw.ctbto.org/DMZ/abstract/21428
   • https://ctnw.ctbto.org/DMZ/abstract/20088
3. Presenting work on the DPRK test site destruction event SnT2019 (Palmer and Selby).
4. Comparative talk for test site, showing 3D visualisation capability at SnT2015 (Pabian), from 3 minutes 20 seconds in.

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Iran tested a satellite launch vehicle, and it failed. But this isn't a reason to cheer.

Iran showed off a lot of goodies this month, pointing to an active solid-propellant missile program and has no said a future satellite launch is going to use a solid-propellant space launch vehicle. 

This is bad news.

Aaron and Jeffrey talk about Iran's space program and why we should embrace the Simorgh and worry about the future.

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