Back in the day, Paul Warnke and I would joke that rooting for the Red Sox was excellent training for arms control. (For non-US readers of ACW, the Red Sox are a baseball team that, until the advent of new ownership, routinely dashed the fondest hopes of its fan base.) The hopes of arms controllers …
Parking Cold War Relics
by | 2009-09-23 | 22 Comments
The two seat SR-71 never got to fulfill its primary mission, thank goodness! Or is it an A-12? I am never so glad my phone has a camera as when I am in Los Angeles. The city has an amazing density of bizarre and interesting sights just begging to be photographed. Admittedly, most of these …
Off to Winnipeg
by | 2009-09-23 | 9 Comments
Things I know about Winnipeg: 1. It is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada. 2. Bobby Hull played 411 games for the Winnipeg Jets, before the WHA merged with the NHL. 3. The University of Manitoba is hosting a workshop on the Future of US Nuclear Strategy. I am attending the workshop and …
4 Score and 7 Interceptors
by | 2009-09-22 | 5 Comments
Scores. No, not Scores. Scores, as in, “four score and seven years ago …” Or, as in, the US will deploy “scores” of missile defense interceptors in Europe. Bob Gates defends the Obama Administration’s shift in missile defense architecture in the New York Times, sizing the number of missiles with an archaic measure normally reserved …
