“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more or less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean different things.” “The question…
From Bouphonia—an anonymous weblog about many random things, few of which are directly related to arms control: Don Rumsfeld is going to be taking some time out from his busy schedule, so that he can start signing death letters personally.…
DOE Director for Policy Planning John Harvey said: “Anything’s possible” when asked about rumors the Administration might attempt to fund a series of controversial nuclear weapons programs out of the Defense budget in order to bypass opposition from the House…
I was catching up on reading State Department transcripts and ran across this response from spokesperson Richard Boucher to a question regarding the stalled six-party talks. Given that North Korea is free to continue working on its nuclear weapons programs,…
After an e-mail exchange, reader JP sends along an interview that Yossi Melman of Ha’aretz conducted with Shahram Chubin (left) of the Geneva Center for Security Policy. Chubin makes the case that Iran’s nuclear policy remains inchoate, loosely organized around…
As you probably already know, the Missile Defense Agency’s Integrated Flight Test (IFT)-13C failed today. I’ve got a post on the subject, Performance Anxiety: Missile Defense Booster Fails to Rise to the Occassion, over on DefenseTech.org. That post notes that…
Integrated Flight Test (IFT)-13C was aborted “after the interceptor missile experienced an anomaly shortly before it was to be launched.” The target, perhaps representing a North Korean ICBM hurtling toward a U.S. city, performed flawlessly. Let’s be clear: This test…
In the debate over the National Intelligence Director, news stories often report that the Secretary of Defense “currently controls up to 80 percent of the estimated 40-billion-dollar intelligence budget.” This estimate is either asserted, phrased in the passive voice or…
I am thinking over the whole “comments” policy. Comments on the topic of comments are welcome.
The National Security Archive has posted the passage about MISTY from Jeffrey Richelson’s The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology, (Boulder: Westview Press, 2002).
