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Spaceflight Now has a longer article on the XSS-11, which the Air Force successfully launched today at 9:35 am EDT. Colonel Richard White, commander of Space and Missile System Center’s Detachment 12, stated “We can say categorically, there’s nothing that…
One of the Senators (Hegel, I think) asked Bolton a few minutes ago during the SFRC hearing why the United States didn’t listen to UNMOVIC and the IAEA when they said Iraq didn’t have WMD. During the course of his…
The Experimental Spacecraft System (XSS)-11 is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force base between 6:34 to 7 am PDT (9:34-10:00 am EDT) today (Monday, April 11). (More) The XSS-11 (right) was scheduled to launch in mid-March, before a problem…
The Senate Intel Committee’s Iraq investigation came up today on Meet the Press. It seems that Roberts has now said publicly that he will do as he promised a while back – investigate the Exec. Branch’s use of the intel…
Did India successfully test a two-stage thermonuclear device in May 1998? There are substantial reasons for skepticism. India claimed that it detonated three devices on 11 May 1998 at Pokhran (right)—a 43-kiloton thermonuclear explosion, a 12-kiloton fission explosion and a…
Dan Blumenthal is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. That is a fact. Here are a few more facts about Blumenthal’s latest screed, “Providing Arms: China and the Middle East”, which appears in Daniel Pipes’ right-wing rag, the…
This is a picture of the 3.5 telescope at the Starfire Optical Range, Directed Energy Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM. The FY 2006 President’s Budget Request includes $4.9 M for the Starfire…
Although the Robb-Silberman report didn’t get into the question of Bush administration officials’ statements RE: Iraq’s supposed WMD, the Senate Intelligence Committee is supposed to be looking into the question. Supposed to be. Apparently, there’s a bit of controversy about…
Not only did DOD take down the draft doctrine documents after I posted the Doctrine for Joint Nucler Operations, but the entire Joint Electronic Library (JEL). Talk about overkill. This totally encapsulates the Rumsfeld Defense Department: Be an idiot, get…
It took about four days, but DTIC removed the Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations and other draft documents from its website. I downloaded the documents, however. Here are the four documents in a single, zipped file.
