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I’ve long been fascinated by Watergate, All the President’s Men and the identity of Deep Throat. Today, Bob Woodward—prodded by a forthcoming Vanity Fair article—confirmed that Assistant FBI Director W. Mark Felt was “Deep Throat.” The possibility that Felt was…
I have a short article in Ad Astra arguing the case for engaging China in cooperation on the peaceful use of outer space. “Space control” does virtually nothing to address the most serious threats posed by the growing number of…
The House Armed Services Committee defense authorization report encourages the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Linton Brooks (right) to reinstate the NNSA Advisory Committee: “The committee notes that shortly after the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) was created, the…
The White House has nominated Gregory L. Schulte to be Representative of the United States of America to the International Atomic Energy Agency, with the rank of Ambassador. The United States has been without an Ambassador to the IAEA since…
The AQ Khan network attempted to purchase 60 metric tons of Russian aluminum tubes through a Swiss front company in March 2004, according to the Swiss Internal Security Report released by the Swiss Federal Police Office: In 2004 the network…
The cover of a recent RAND report (right) depicts the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) five-star logo stretching across a Eurasian landmass that has been colored black in a fashion strangely reminiscent of propaganda films. A professor of mine from Augusta…
IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky confirms to Doug Frantz of the Los Angeles Times that Pakistan has provided centrifuge components and uranium samples to the IAEA Centrifuge components and uranium samples were flown from Pakistan to Vienna and handed over to…
Staring at the curve representing the effectiveness of contact bursts againt hard and deeply buried targets, I noticed the RNEP was designed to defeat tunnels and underground facilities between 100-400 m. FIGURE 4.5 Effectiveness of contact bursts against some deeply…
Doobie Brother’s guitarist and “Missile Defense Analyst” Skunk Baxter—recently appointed to NASA’s Exploration Systems Advisory Committee—gets some love from the Wall Street Journal for his unconventional views on terrorism: “We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to…
Jonathan Medalia at the Congressional Research Service has written a very thorough treatment of the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RW) program. Medalia quotes Raymond Jeanloz, chair of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, to describe the basic…
