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TTV in all its infrared nerdporn glory … On 17 November 2005 the Missile Defense Agency conducted Flight Test Maritime 04-2 (FTM-2)—a test of its Aegis based missile defense system. A SM-3 interceptor did what its name implies and hit…
Back in my salad days at UCLA, it was practically a prerequisite for us feminists to attend “Take Back the Night” rallies. Take ownership, and you could ostensibly take control. So I read with interest the comments made by the…
The Federation of American Scientists awards Steve Fetter—a member of my dissertation committee—the Hans A. Bethe prize … … in recognition of his outstanding contributions as an advocate for arms control and nonproliferation and for his insightful and rigorous analysis…
Mr. SQ, resident ACW graphic analyst, sends along his comment on US strategy in Iraq. *** Steve Clemons has a posted a copy of the US National Strategy for Victory in Iraq. (more from the NYT and WP) The document…
John Lennon said “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” Life has gotten busy for me, so I am calling in two awesome guest bloggers, Michael Katz-Hyman of the Stimson Center and Victoria Samson of…
James Sterngold at the San Francisco Chronicle has a detailed update on the Reliable Replacement Warhead Program: The first warhead to be upgraded will be the W76, which is deployed on the submarine-based Trident missiles. But whether that missile will…
Jofi Joseph says something simple, sensible and overdue: The Bush administration’s most blatant misrepresentation of intelligence was its claim that Iraq’s attempts at purchasing thousands of high-strength aluminum tubes was part of an effort to build nuclear centrifuges to produce…
I’ll be on MSNBC Live tomorrow (Saturday) at 10:45 a.m. to talk about Iran. Any suggestions?
A couple of days ago, IAEA DG Mohamed ElBaradei revealed that the AQ Khan network provided Iran with a number of documents in 1987, including one “related to the … casting and machining of enriched, natural and depleted uranium metal…
I was reading Bill Gertz’s article on the EMP threat, thinking “I wish someone else would point out that the article is a steaming pile of horseapples.” Nick Schwellenbach from the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has done just that,…
