Today, I am working on the dissertation chapter about Chinese nuclear deployments. Recent reports by the Council on Foreign Relations, National Resources Defense Council and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (subscription) all describe the People’s Republic of China as the world’s third largest nuclear power, ahead of the British and French, with 400 or …
Cooperative Satellite Tracking and Low Observable Satellites
by | 2004-03-05 | No Comments
I’ve just finished a paper for the ISA Conference in Montreal suggesting that we should support (and probably expand) Air Force Space Command proposals to provide satellite tracking data and analytic support to foreign and commercial entities. If we don/’t provide the data necessary to manage orbital traffic, others eventual will – much as Europe …
Iraqi WMD (or lack thereof)
by | 2004-03-04 | No Comments
Former Iraq Survey Group head David Kay testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that “we were almost all wrong” about Iraq. He had earlier explained that the U.S. intelligence community was fooled by the “vortex of corruption” in Iraq that also duped Saddam. Iraqi WMD efforts, according to Kay, were “largely subsumed into corrupt …
US Torpedoes the CD
by | 2004-03-03 | No Comments
We recently (26 February 2004) torpedoed the Conference on Disarmament. After the Chinese and Russians dropped demands for negotiations on preventing an arms race in outer space, the ball was in our court. Our Ambassador to the CD, Jackie Wolcott Sanders, responded by throwing down her racket and yelling at the line judge: “We are …
