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From today’s Secrecy News: ALTERNATIVE COVER SHEETS FOR CLASSIFIED INFO While underlying questions of secrecy and disclosure carry a potent primeval charge, the actual implementation of government secrecy policy is about as boring as it could be. In a rare…
The Union of Concerned Scientists has released a database of operational satellites in orbit: The UCS Satellite Database is a listing of operational satellites currently in orbit around the Earth. It is available as a downloadable Excel file, which is…
Listen to Rep. Tauscher at the Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference in 2005. Sixteen Democratic members of Congress, including Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), have released a letter to the President expressing concern that a proposed Joint Doctrine on Nuclear Operations would undermine…
Scott Gearity has the grim evidence (more).
No sooner did Congress hash out a compromise to terminate the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, then Billy Mullins (below)—an Air Force official with a title too wonky for even this blogger and kind of a letdown after yesterday’s image—tells Congress…
Keepin’ it work safe for the boyz and grrls with the .gov and .mil IPs … Jeremy Singer at Space News reports (Yahoo! has the full text) that the Air Force Research Laboratory is “planning a small experimental satellite that…
A week or so ago, Dave Ruppe at Global Security Newswire reported that … More than a dozen former senior U.S. nuclear arms control and nonproliferation officials and other experts recently expressed reservations about a potential U.S.-India nuclear energy deal,…
The Pentagon appears to have a loose construct of time and savings when it comes to the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. Originally intended to give the United States guaranteed access to space, it instead has done in its…
The Insitute for Energy and Environmental Research released a report on 29 November 2005 (written by two scientists, Brice Smith and Arjun Makhijani), detailing the amount of weapons-grade plutoinum that is in the soil or being stored as waste at…
Missile defense programs generally don’t die; they fade away. They’re born of great hope and expectations, which they gradually piss away with poor performance and unbelievable cost growth until they can be quietly put out to pasture. Airborne Laser (ABL)…
