DIA head General Maples and DNI Admiral McConnell were asked about the subject a little over a month ago. I wrote about it here.
SC-19
by | 2007-04-01 | No Comments
Greetings from Geneva! I have to give a talk on ASAT weapons here at the UNIDIR conference, Celebrating the Space Age: 50 Years of Technology, 40 Years of the Outer Space Treaty. My talk will center of the role that the spread of hit-to-kill technologies will have on space security. In brief, my argument is …
Bomb Scare, good bedtime reading
by | 2007-03-30 | 6 Comments
A friend recently asked me about putting together a nonproliferation reading list. I was about to start one of those massive, far too much information emails. Then I had a much better idea. I told him to go get Bomb Scare. Joe Cirincione’s new book, Bomb Scare: The History & Future of Nuclear Weapons is …
Policy Changes, Podvig on Russia & Bushehr
by | 2007-03-28 | 22 Comments
Pavel Podvig has a good column over at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The article, “Behind Russia and Iran’s Nuclear Reactor Dispute” addresses changes in Russia’s position towards Iran, which I blogged about last week, and argues that Russia should in fact complete Bushehr construction and ship fuel. Last week, Russia reportedly threatened to …
