Bill Gertz reports Rummy’s every word with the enthusiasm of an eromenos: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld took a jab at critics of U.S. missile defense efforts during a speech last week in Huntsville, Ala. He noted his cordial discussions…
I am writing a piece for Arms Control Today on foreign counterspace systems. The mandate was to summarize foreign counterspace capabilities to accompany an article being written by Michael Krepon. The more I look, the more I realize that the…
China and Russia submitted a pair of non-papers to the Conference on Disarmament in speeches by Ambassadors Leonid A. Skotnikov (Russia) and Hu Xiaodi (China). The two speeches had a de facto division of labor, with Skotnikov talking substance and…
Hans M. Kristensen, formerly of the Nautilus Institute and now a consultant to the National Resources Defense Council, has a new project and website. The Nuclear Information Project “is a private, independent, and non-profit project created with the purpose of…
Matt Bunn has a nice foogin’ summary of the proposed Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) on the Nuclear Threat Initiative website. Apart from saying lots of sensible things–including calling on the Bush Administration to “reverse its new position and return…
Space News on Monday reports similar information to my August 20 post, announcing that MDA will (1) remove the kill vehicle from NFIRE, (2) use the NFIRE KV as a ground-based risk reduction asset, and (3) slip the launch date…
With the Bush Administration proposing a gradual withdrawal of some 70,000 US troops from Europe to “help us fight and win these wars of the 21st century,” why did NATO recently reaffim support for keeping US nuclear weapons forward deployed…
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. John Edwards has taped an introduction for a Turner Classic Movies screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War classic Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The Chicago Tribune…
Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Seventh Annual Space and Missile Defense Conference are now available from the Department of Defense. CDI’s Victoria Samson, who attended the gathering, noticed a mildly Orwellian editorial decision: One part of…
In my August 6 post regarding the award of a contract to develop a hypersonic technology vehicle under DARPA’s FALCON/Common Aero Vehicle program, I neglected to mention the restrictions on the Common Aero Vehicle program that emerged from conference. The…
