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Dawn Stover of Popular Science obtained this image through the Freedom of Information Act. The image, taken by the XSS-11 microsatellite, shows the upper stage of the Minotaur 1 that carried the microsatellite into orbit. If you are interested, here…
More images of space-themed stamps from India. K.S. Jayaraman of Space News (“Indian Government Set To Create Aerospace Command”) reports that Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Air Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi told reporters India would establish Aerospace Command for various…
I usually limit my commentary about Iraq to WMD-related issues. That reflects both my own relative expertise, as well as my sense of futility about the entire endeavor. The course of this catastrophe follows a terrible, inexorable logic that I…
Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) sent out a press release announcing that the Appropriations Conferees “have agreed to drop funding for continued research on the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) project…” The House had eliminated DOE funds for RNEP, while the…
I started this blog to be on record so I could say “I told you so.” Josh Marshall reports that—despite what the T-Bone and the FCO have claimed—Britain did not have a second source for their bogus claim the Iraq…
Nick Schwellenbach, writing on the POGO blog, noticed that the “generic country” in some Air Force slides looked suspiciously like Iran: Three of the Power Point slides used in a presentation on the Air Force’s Future Total Force plan featured…
David Sanger in the New York Times reports “a previously undisclosed incident in June” involving trade between Iran and North Korea: … American satellites tracked an Iranian cargo plane landing in North Korea. The two countries have a history of…
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has launched a procurement website to promote “integrity, fairness and openness” in military procurement. China Daily quotes a PAP officer saying the website will reduce corruption: Ma Qiang, from the Gansu Division of the Chinese…
John Fleck, reporter for the Albuquerque Journal, notes that NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks clammed up when asked about the using uranium for the reliable replacement warhead: My question to Brooks: Is uranium being considered? I got the “is it classified?”…
A few weeks ago, I noticed a slight inconsistency in a couple of otherwise outstanding articles by Mark Hibbs regarding Iran’s Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) The question concerned the method of extracting impurities from uranium—impurities that might crash Iran’s centrifuge…
