Category: administrivia

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Don’t quote me on that …

“Among Democrats, there is a broad concern about missile defense, whether it is space-based, ground-based or sea-based,” says Jeffrey Lewis, graduate research fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland [University]. “There are enough people who support…

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Your tax dollars at work …

Reading an old GAO report on anti-submarine warfare (ASW) performance in The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)’s Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) Service, I see that the drone responsible for scanning in the paper copies is also an avid…

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Phew … its done.

Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration but The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age is off to the editor (the supremely talented Laura Susan Jacobs, who freelances for those of you in…

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Me on the Great Wall

Goetz Neuneck sent along this rather silly pictre of me on the Great Wall (with Wang Ting and Scott Kemp over my shoulder and Andre Rothkirch on my left). I owe Goetz a chapter on China for his upcoming volume,…

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"Space for Progress" Forum

Arms Control Wonk will be moderating a panel during the “Space for Progress” Forum on July 22, 2004. Speakers include: Ambassador Jonathan Dean Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), Adviser on Global Security Issues. Dr Leonard Weiss Chair of Space Weapons…

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American journalism

As some of you know, one of the big themes here at Armscontrolwonk is wondering what to do about the apparent inability or unwillingness of the American media to challenge how the Administration frames security issues. Michael Massing has a…

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Cock blocked by the KGB

1973. The Soviet Ambassador calls the National Security Advisor. What major crisis dominates their conversation? Just read it. Read this one, too. Now, Dmitry.

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Workshop on Technical Aspects of Space Security

The highlight of the Workshop on Technical Aspects of Space Security, so far, has been the tour of The Beijing Museum of Astronautics. I have some great pictures of myself with China’s first ballistic missile (the 1059) and its first…