I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to size US nuclear forces, whether to some number of targets, or capabilities or with some other metric. (Hint: some other metric.) More on that soon, but I wanted to share a funny story I came across. The late-Clinton force sizing construct was “lead and hedge” — …
More on that TE rollover at Minot
by | 2008-08-03 | 2 Comments
A former Malmstrom missileer writes to say that 3-4 TE rollovers over 25-30 years “seems about right, it’s definitely not something that happens every day.” From what I recall of TE emplacements (I was a missileer so not really an expert in convoy or TE ops) they have special routes that they follow in the …
Another Foul-Up At Minot
by | 2008-08-01 | 11 Comments
This time, a truck carrying a MMIII booster overturned on a gravel road in North Dakota: A truck carrying a rocket booster for an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile tipped over on a northwestern North Dakota road on Thursday, but no one was injured and there was no threat to the public, an Air …
Japnese Bust Export Violator
by | 2008-08-01 | 6 Comments
Sorry I’ve been so absent lately. I’ve just been really, really, really busy. Anyway, James and Andy have done a wonderful job in the interim. The Japanese have raided yet another business — Horkos, based un-ironically in Hiroshima Prefecture — for export control violations. Horkos is accused of exporting machining centers without the proper license. …
