A fire broke out in a Minuteman III silo in Wyoming and burned undetected for five days. Tom Roeder from the Colorado Springs Gazette has the story. The use of duct tape is my favorite detail: The fire was May 23 at a silo 42 miles east of Cheyenne, Wyo,, where the Minuteman III missile …
Gen. Chilton on a Space Weapons Treaty
by | 2008-10-30 | 21 Comments
Yesterday morning I attended a breakfast featuring General Chilton, STRATCOM commander. The one-time astronaut offered this colorful illustration for why definitional issues would make it impossible, in his judgment, to negotiate a workable treaty banning space weapons: Let’s say you build a craft capable of pulling alongside a satellite, extending a robotic arm, and plucking …
Sarko on Obama
by | 2008-10-30 | 12 Comments
A diligent reader spotted an article in Haaretz reporting that, in private, Sarkozy has been very critical of Obama’s Iran policy, calling it (or perhaps him) “utterly immature”. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is very critical of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s positions on Iran, according to reports that have reached Israel’s government. Sarkozy has made …
Mining and the BOE
by | 2008-10-29 | 15 Comments
I apologize deeply for posting without a picture, but it may not arrive for some weeks to come, and this article would then be too old. I’m Andreas Persbo, and I’ve been asked to write a couple of posts once in a while. Some of you may know me from my blog Verification, Implementation and …
