Pavel Podvig, author of the definitive Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (makes a nice stocking stuffer), has a website and episodic blog entitled—what else—Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. The goal of his Russian Nuclear Forces Project is to provide Russian citizens and…
I’ll be guest bloggin’ over at DefenseTech.org though the end of the week. My first post— concerning Russian efforts to market commerical launch services using to-be-decomissioned SS-18 ICBMS—is up there now. While guest blogging, I will still post particularly wonky…
Occasionally, I receive hostile or amusingly uninformed comments—which I promptly delete. I wanted to share the content of one, which I regrettably deleted. Responding to Physics 101: Boost Phase Missile Defense and the Shortfall Problem, I recall the genius in…
John Fleck, a writer for the Albuquerque Journal, has a weblog on nuclear issues, NukeBeat. Cool.
Belated praise to Edward Tufte who skewered Colin Powell’s UN presentation on Iraq at the time, noting: The cognitive style of Powell’s PP presentation resembles that of JFK assassination theorists: small highly selected bits of information that, along with some…
In a fit of sado-masochism, Michael Roston has committed to reading the right-wing press every day. Check out Looking for Someone to Lie to Me. The result—THE TWO MINUTES HATE—has rapidly become my favorite daily read.
Well, for the second time in something like six months, I’ve lost an entire hard drive. I hadn’t backed up in about a month, so this was really catastrophic. Anyway, I am starting to put my electronic life back together…
Sorry for the long lapse in posts—the Chinese internet browser was not letting me use blogger. ISODARCO is off-the-record, but you’ll probably see little bits and pieces pop up over the next few weeks. Something I can say is that…
I’ll be giving a talk, Space Weaponization Spending in FY2005 Defense Budget, at the 9th PIIC Beijing Seminar on International Security (12-15 October 2004) in Nanjing, China. Yes, the Beijing Seminar is being held in Nanjing. How should I know?…
1. The Eisenhower National Security Series has a published a report from a recent conference, U.S. Space Operations in the International Context (February 2004, Washington, D.C.), co-sponsored by the Eisenhower Institute. “This program explored the strategic and operational implications of…
