Arms Control Wonk

Here is the last paragraph in the Aviation Week & Space Technology article on easing export controls to improve international missile defense collaboration: Long-time missile defense advocate Robert G. Joseph, special assistant to the President and senior director for proliferation strategies, counterproliferation and homeland defense, argues that “ultimately we must go to space” and not …

ABCNews.com has a story on space weaponization, with the the Near Field Infra Red Experiment as the lead (the author called me for a comment, but alas I was in Switzerland). The story even has “one senior government official and defense expert” describing the program as “crossing the Rubicon into space weaponization.” I think I …