Open note to Fred Hiatt: You are a total neocon hack job. I don’t know how Hiatt ended up as the editorial page editor at the Washington Post, and I suppose this ends my chances of placing any op-eds at the Post in the near future, but to hell with it. And so much for …
Donald Report
by | 2009-07-21 | No Comments
After the USAF shipped four Minuteman III nosecones to Taiwan, SECDEF Robert Gates asked Admiral Kirkland H. Donald to investigate the “facts and circumstances surrounding the accountability for, and shipment of, sensitive missile components to Taiwan.” Gates eventually briefed the findings of the so-called Donald Report in June 2008, before deciding that “accountability” rested with …
A Place For One's Mat
by | 2009-07-20 | 2 Comments
Gregory Kulacki and I have published a paper on the history of China’s space program, A Place for One’s Mat: China’s Space Program, 1956–2003, as part of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Reconsidering the Rules of Space project: Chinese scientists and engineers use a particular phrase to describe why China made such significant …
DPRK: Drilling for Nuke Verification
by | 2009-07-20 | 25 Comments
The position measurement of the 25 May 2009 “nuclear” test, with errors. Up until now, I have been very skeptical of suggestions that the DPRK 2009 nuclear test was actually a conventional explosion. But because of a very interesting presentation here in Shanghai, I have changed my mind. (See Josh’s post for a discussion of …
