The Pentagon often issues dire sounding warnings like : “The Soviets have … at least one ground-based laser, also at Sary Shagan, that may have sufficient power to damage some unprotected satellites in near-earth orbits.” “China already may possess the…
One of my favorite cocktail party gambits is to explain that the United States lost nuclear weapons all the time during the Cold War, including one off the coast of Georgia in 1958. After a moment of awkward disbelief, I…
One of the nice things about living in Washington is meeting interesting people. I was lucky enough to meet Brett Marston, though under the worst possible circumstances. Brett has a blog focusing on “law and politics worldwide, etc.” He made…
A US military briefing on Space Operations describes the so-called Microsat Kinetic Kill Payload (MKKP): Mission: Destruction of Enemy Spacecraft Up to 10 can be placed in orbit in 1 SMV [Space Maneuver Vehicle, ed.] using rotary launcher Target DATA…
The wierdest moment of the Presidential debate was the candidates getting wonky over the merits of bilateral vs. multilateral negotiations. I was going to do my best to explain the difference, but Peter Scoblic beat me to it with an…
Paul Kerr notes that Newsweek (October 11, 2004) has the other shoe dropping on Administration claims about its role in disarming Libya: “We convinced Libya to disarm,” Bush said. But in fact the British played the lead role in the…
Lockheed Martin has delivered the first Counter Satellite Communications System (or just Counter Communications System) to 76th Space Control Squadron in Colorado. The announcement was made by U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Larry James in an interview at the American…
Paul Kerr, at the Arms Control Association, notes that David Sanger’s NYT article today on the debate “is pretty good, but he really got this part wrong: Mr. Kerry argued repeatedly that North Korea posed a far greater threat than…
I’ve often jokes that the axis of evil wasn’t a phrase, it was a menu. Now that we are past the soup course, Bush doesn’t seem to know which fork to use. Peter Scoblic is the former editor at Arms…
From an arms control perspective, the debate was mildly interesting. Bush hit Kerry over his support for the International Criminal Court, something the PIPA’s voter studies show should be a losing issue for Bush if Kerry sticks him to it.…
