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DARPA is the gift that keeps on giving. I noticed this new start in the DARPA budget: Program (US$ Millions) 2006 2007 Spacecraft for the Unmanned Modification of Orbits (SUMO) 12.6 22.3 “SUMO combines detailed stereo photogrammetric imaging with robotic…
Will someone in the press please, for the love of God, notice that Bush’s description of Washington’s Iran diplomacy does not constitute anything anyone could reasonably call “success”? Bush told an audience on Friday that: we [the US and the…
Don’t let the “Opie” grin fool you. He’s nuts, too. President Bush will nominate Michael Griffin to succeed Sean O’Keefe as NASA Administrator. Despite drawing bipartisan praise, Griffin’s missile defense background— he served as deputy for technology at the Strategic…
Undersecretary Bolton hard at work, fighting proliferation. Michael Roston—author of Looking for Someone to Lie to Me and Nuclear Test Watch—has written a scathing opinion piece for Arms Control Wonk.com arguing against Bolton’s nomination. The full text is reproduced here.…
Nobody, Pavel Podvig included, seems to be able to craft a compelling reason for Moscow to threaten to pull out of the INF Treaty. But maybe, Ivanov didn’t bring it up. Maybe Rumsfeld did. Artur Blinov, writing in Nezavisimaya Gazeta…
On the Tehran. Woo hoo! Note to SecState Rice: Making token gestures to support the EU3-Iran negotiations is only a really, really, weak beginning of a coherent Iran policy. Look, Iran is being asked to do something that’s not legally…
KE ASAT in the Davidson Technologies booth at a recent SMDC conference in Huntsville, AB. It turns out KE ASAT is alive and well, living in Alabama. For those of you who don’t remember, the KE ASAT is a giant,…
Four little reporters listened to conference call with the Director of the Missile Defense Agency … The first little reporter, Ann Roosevelt of Defense Daily, went “MDA Director ‘Disappointed’ In Recent Test Problems.” (subscription only, I am afraid) The second…
SS-20 (left) and Pershing II (right) eliminated under the 1987 INF Treay on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The Financial Times is reporting that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov asked Donald Rumsfeld how the…
Before North Korea, on 4 March, said it was no longer bound to its 1999 missile launch moratorium, Time Magazine published a 20 February article making an old charge: “Administration officials think it may be cheating [on the moratorium] by…
