(A Swiss-made Bottom Bearing from Iraq similar to the Dutch model discussed below.) Bet you’re all hot and bothered now. Along with “portal perimeter monitoring”, “bottom bearing preform” just sounds naughty. Mark Hibbs is following an obscure Dutch export control…
He’s baaaaack! Mark Helprin—senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, former advisor to Bob Dole, and owner of a pretentious personal website—attacks the Bush Administration for it’s foreign policy focus on democratization: THE PRESIDENT believes and often states, as if it…
The Indian Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and US Department of Energy (DOE) concluded a four-day workshop on civilian nuclear energy in Mumbai on January 12. The U.S. was represented at the first workshop of the Civil Nuclear Working Group…
Yesterday, Russian newspaper Vedomosti had an interesting “Question of the Day” in their commentaries section: “How will a nuclear Iran change the world?” The paper provided several responses from Russian think-tank types, whose comments included predictions of changes in the…
Greetings from the 2006 Forum on Defense and Space from Colorado Springs. The large mountin topped with all manner of antennae, visible from the conference hotel, is Cheyenne Mountain—home of the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, which serves as the command…
Michael Roston beats me to the punch, noting the incongruity between past and current Bill Gertz reporting on NSA whistleblower Russ Tice. FWIW, I’ve always thought Tice sounds a little odd, even if it gets in the way of an…
Yesterday, a colleague of mine was attempting to get a weblink for a recent article in the Washington Times. It’s a newspaper, I’m a “researcher”—so I think simple enough. Except, what do I find? Nothing. Rounding up the usual suspects…
For those worrying about Iran, or realizing that it is in fact only Tuesday, here is something to lift your spirits. There is a wonderful article in the January/February 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs called A Natural History of Peace.…
Iran seems to have pulled the rough diplomatic equivalent of downing eight pints and running around all over the place. This just in: Iran Begins Removal of IAEA Seals at Enrichment-related Locations Vienna, 10 January 2006 – IAEA inspectors confirmed…
Imagine that you are an astronaut. Sitting (or is it floating?) in the International Space Station (ISS), you would likely be quite aware of a curious link between your escape route home (Earth sweet Earth) and Russia’s possible assistance for…
