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Sumitra Rajagopalan, a freelance writer and Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at the University of Montreal, has an opinion piece in the Toronto Star entitled, “The politics of space weapons.” I get a shout out, though I am quoted as…
While criticizing missile defense opponents, Secretary Rumsfeld invoked a favorite platitude–“weakness is provocative”–and, apparently inadvertantly, implied the President’s policy in Iraq has weakened the country and encouraged terrorist attacks: “History has taught us that weakness is provocative,” Rumsfeld said. “To…
President Bush took a cheap shot at missile defense skeptics today: I think those who oppose this ballistic missile system really don’t understand the threats of the 21st century. They’re living in the past. The Kerry campaign answered with a…
Michael Levi recently pointed out a disturbing episode when Porter Goss’ partisanship interfered with his professional judgment: The congressman’s more disturbing remarks in that half-hour June call with the press addressed North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Goss said, “Clearly not…
A Military Intelligence Failure? The Case of the Parasite Satellite (Gregory Kulacki and David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists, 16 August 2004) is now on-line. Take a moment to read it, then imagine the humiliation for the person who wrote…
The Washington Post (Bradley Graham, “Some Question Report On Chinese Space Arms,” August 14, 2004, A14) details a bit of research by my friends Gregory Kulacki and David Wright at the Union of Concerned Scientists that should be highly embarassing…
I spent yesterday at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on International Security and Arms Control summer symposium: Post-Cold War U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground. There wasn’t a lot of common ground on…
Senator John Kyl (R-AZ) is reportedly waging a quiet campaign to press the Bush Administration to withdraw the US signature from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The Washington Post’s “In the Loop” and the Los Angeles Times are…
The only way for us to deal with people that you can’t negotiate with — there’s no arms control treaty here at the end of the day that guarantees our security. There’s no way to appease these people and have…
You know your career is in the tubes when you make a derisive footnote in a bipartisan report investigating the worst attack on American soil. That’s exactly where Douglas J. “Spanky” Feith finds himself. A footnote (n. 75, p.559) in…
