I spent yesterday at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on International Security and Arms Control summer symposium: Post-Cold War U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground. There wasn’t a lot of common ground on…
Senator John Kyl (R-AZ) is reportedly waging a quiet campaign to press the Bush Administration to withdraw the US signature from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). The Washington Post’s “In the Loop” and the Los Angeles Times are…
The only way for us to deal with people that you can’t negotiate with — there’s no arms control treaty here at the end of the day that guarantees our security. There’s no way to appease these people and have…
You know your career is in the tubes when you make a derisive footnote in a bipartisan report investigating the worst attack on American soil. That’s exactly where Douglas J. “Spanky” Feith finds himself. A footnote (n. 75, p.559) in…
The text of Ambassador Sander’s speech at the CD reaffirming US support for the FMCT actually represents a step backward for U.S. policy. Now I understand why the State Department sat on the full text for a couple of days.…
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed Martin a $7.7 M increment of a $8.4 M prototypes agreement for Phase IIa of Task 2 (hypersonic technology vehicle) of the DARPA/Air Force FALCON program. The hypersonic technology vehicle (a.k.a.…
1. The Eisenhower National Security Series has a published a report from a recent conference, U.S. Space Operations in the International Context (February 2004, Washington, D.C.), co-sponsored by the Eisenhower Institute. “This program explored the strategic and operational implications of…
“Among Democrats, there is a broad concern about missile defense, whether it is space-based, ground-based or sea-based,” says Jeffrey Lewis, graduate research fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland [University]. “There are enough people who support…
Wade Boese, at the Arms Control Association, was kind enough to send along the State Department press guidance regarding the renewed effort for a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty: Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty Policy The United States has completed its policy…
The United States has suddenly announced that we support (again) the negotiation of a Fissile Material Cut Off Treaty, which would prohibit the production of fissile materal for nuclear weapons. And I mean suddenly. The Bush Administration had been reviewing…
