Erroll Morris is a documentary film-maker — a very good one at that, having directed Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert McNamara. His column, “Zoom,” contains two posts that detail his fascination with a pair of Crimean War photographs by Roger Fenton. The posts don’t have anything to do with arms …
2 More Chinese Booomers?
by | 2007-10-05 | 5 Comments
Hans Kristensen spotted two Chinese 130 m-long SSBNs, side by side, at Huludao Shipyard in Google Earth. I am very excited to see how the Chinese operate these suckers once they are kitted out and the JL-2 is ready. I guess this means I need to write part three of my three part series on …
Kyl On Classified Space Spending
by | 2007-10-04 | 2 Comments
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) engaged in a long discussion over the classified budget on programs to defend satellites that made some of his colleagues, including Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) very uncomfortable as Senator Kyl pointed out what wasn’t in the budget and gave some hypothetical examples. I’ve highlighted some suggestive passages from Congressional Record. Mr. …
Questioning Russia's Bomb Test
by | 2007-10-04 | 4 Comments
A few weeks ago I blogged about Russia’s “Father of All Bombs,” a fuel-air bomb they claimed to be the world’s largest non-nuclear weapon. Did the Russians really drop the bomb off a Tu-160 bomber or was the drop a hoax? David Axe at Wired has some interesting speculations.
