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Urs Tinner, alleged Khan middleman, is free — according to AP: A Swiss man suspected of involvement in the world’s biggest nuclear smuggling ring has been released from prison after more than four years of investigative detention, his family said…
Click on the image for more detail. $15 from shirt.woot. F’ing awesome.
I remember having a conversation with a missile engineer some time ago about the North Korean Nodong missile; he said “no one in their right mind would field a missile that has only been successfully tested once!” At the time,…
Frank Pabian sends along a response to the comments on his presentation. Regarding the comments posted so far regarding my Youtube briefing, first, I would first like to thank all the commenters for their questions and comments on the various…
Jeffrey writes in his recent post about BX-1 being a Rorschach test and he appears to be right on so many levels. I thought I’d riff off of his excellent post and focus in on one aspect that has been…
You can see an animation of the BX-1 companion satellite at 1:57 into the clip. Anybody remember that really boring paper I wrote, in 2004, calling for “rules of the road” regarding autonomous proximity operations? (That’s when satellites maneuver around…
Sorry for the light blogging of late. I got a chuckle out of this story: US firms now control UK’s nuclear weapons plant LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government said Friday that a state-owned nuclear group has sold its stake in…
click on the image for a larger version The currently active US early warning satellites, SBIRS and DSP: each satellite is removed one at a time to highlight its individual coverage. Orbits have been determined by the amateur satellite observer…
The Strategic Posture Commission has released its interim report. For what it is worth, I think Hans K has it backward. The report doesn’t “reinstate Russia at the center of U.S. nuclear thinking” as he suggets, so much as it…
The image on the left is a simulation of the Delta II powered trajectory in GoogleEarth, the red portion is the solid rocket boosters; the image on the right is the actual SBIRS photo with the outline of Florida highlighted.…
