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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…
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that “The Bush administration is beginning a broad review of its Russia policy that could lead to a more confrontational approach toward Moscow over its treatment of neighboring countries and its own citizens…” The…
Three U.S. government officals have told the Washington Post that the “The Bush administration has dozens of intercepts of Mohamed ElBaradei’s phone calls with Iranian diplomats and is scrutinizing them in search of ammunition to oust him as director general…
Keith Cowing is reporting that former Missile Defense Agency Director Ronald Kadish may replace Sean O’Keefe as NASA Administrator. O’Keefe is leaving for the ever popular “spend more time with his family” reason and is under consideration for Chancellor of…
The Washington Post’s Dana Priest reports that government officials confirmed the classified “major funding acquisition program” to which Senator Rockefeller objected was the next stealth reconnaissance satellite in the MISTY program (MISTY-3). This blog has covered the MISTY program in…
A careful reader observes that Selig Harrison’s article in Foreign Affairs was advertising for Ending the North Korea Nuclear Crisis, “the report of a high-level Task Force on U.S./Korea Policy [associated with the Center for International Policy] presenting important new…
The Federation of American Scientists Secrecy Project has the collected statements relating to continued funding for a classified program opposed by Senator Rockefeller. Among the statements is an e-mail from his press office that Senator Rockefeller’s statement “was fully vetted…
Apparently a judge believes no one with relatives in China should hold a security clearance. (Previous rulings to this effect have been upheld on appeals, see here and here.) Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough approve. Gertz and Scarborough report that…
