Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts
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Lockheed Martin has delivered the first Counter Satellite Communications System (or just Counter Communications System) to 76th Space Control Squadron in Colorado. The announcement was made by U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Larry James in an interview at the American…
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Paul Kerr, at the Arms Control Association, notes that David Sanger’s NYT article today on the debate “is pretty good, but he really got this part wrong: Mr. Kerry argued repeatedly that North Korea posed a far greater threat than…
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I’ve often jokes that the axis of evil wasn’t a phrase, it was a menu. Now that we are past the soup course, Bush doesn’t seem to know which fork to use. Peter Scoblic is the former editor at Arms…
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From an arms control perspective, the debate was mildly interesting. Bush hit Kerry over his support for the International Criminal Court, something the PIPA’s voter studies show should be a losing issue for Bush if Kerry sticks him to it.…
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Large majorities of Bush supporters also support a variety of arms control agreeements, such as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the International Criminal Court and the Ottawa Convention banning land mines, that Bush himself opposes: This is a huge missed…
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I was struggling for something interesting to say about North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon’s claim that S2R* had “already reprocessed 8,000 wasted fuel rods and transformed them into arms.” [*Secretive Stalinist Regime. Apparently respectable news outlets think this…
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MDA (operating in its little know role as a 527 for the Bush Administration) is sticking interceptors in the frozen tundra of Alaska and calling it a missile defense. Not that the thing works: MDA has delayed the next flight…
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The GAO just released a shocking report, Diploma Mills: Diploma Mills Are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees at Government Expense to Federal Employees, that finds “28 [GS-15 (or equivalent) and above] employees [from eight agencies] listed degrees…
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I was reading the Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) when I came across a most unusual column. It appears that someone felt that a CCTV program called “The Missile Brigade Commander” lacked realism. So, in case you had any questions, this…
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On October 21, 2004, Dr. Arms Control Wonk will be on a panel, “Prospects for Peace and Security in Outer Space,” hosted by Jonathan Dean and the Union of Concerned Scientists at the United Nations. In addition to Ambassador Dean…
