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Friend of Wonk Allen Thompson sends along this little update from the October 2006 issue of Seafarer’s Log: Twenty-six Seafarers recently were lauded for their contributions to the Department of Defense’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) X-Band Radar (XBR) Project office…
The Onion on China’s ASAT test: Americans Demand Military Response After Chinese Shoot Down DirecTV Satellite January 29, 2007 | Issue 43•05 WASHINGTON, DC—A citizens’ group presented a petition signed by nearly 75 million Americans to key members of Congress…
Read about that double-fisted effort here.
Paul Stares argues that multilateral security assurances might induce Pyongyang to agree to the dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear program: The diplomatic vehicle for such security assurances would be a United Nations-sponsored initiative to formally end the Korean War and…
That was one issue raised when I was discussing the latest supervillain alliance with various folks. A partial answer can be found here.
Is anything cooler than super-villains teaming up, like when Doctor Doom and Sub-Mariner settled into an uneasy alliance? No, obviously not. So, neither is it surprising that super-hack Con Coughlin alleges North Korea is helping Iran prepare for a nuclear…
The fantastic photo is by Victor Minghir. FY-1 Charlie is now more than five hundred pieces of tracked debris (International Launch Designators 1999-025E – 1999-025WS). As a result, Leo Barhorst notes on the SeeSat Listserv, the Space Track catalogue has…
I am in New Delhi, attending a Financial Services Volunteer Corps dialogue among Russian, Chinese, Indian and American participants. Our meeting kicked off on Friday, which just happened to coincide with a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin and…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Arak Heavy Water Plant. Paul has a wrap up of the Iranian bureaucratic machinery behind Iran’s decision to bar 38 French, British, German and Canadian nationals from serving as IAEA inspectors in Iran. Mark…
In my forthcoming book, one of the little nagging questions I couldn’t answer was why the DF-31 solid-fueled ICBM (IRBM, harumph) was taking so damn long. I said: “In 1996, NAIC predicted CSS‐X‐10 (DF‐31) deployment ‘about the turn of the…
