The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA), much-beleaguered about the status of the missile defense system designed to protect the United States against missile attacks, can finally report good news. Sort of. It held a test of the upgraded version of the interceptor for its Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (Aegis BMD) system. The new Standard Missile …
Greetings from Middlebury
by | 2006-06-22 | 5 Comments
I am giving a talk on blogging as I blog. Weird.
Snakes on the Six Party Talks
by | 2006-06-22 | 1 Comment
While the usual suspects fantasize in their collective right-wing whack-shack about a North Korean ballistic missile test, a working GMD, etc., it would be useful to take a look at what North Korea’s MFA said 1 June. The fact that North Korea invited Chris Hill for a visit was widely reported at the time. But …
Stand Down, Boys
by | 2006-06-22 | 7 Comments
The Flat Earth Society has a foothold in the Wall Street Journal editorial page: It’s possible we’ll wake up to the news that Pyongyang has tested the long-range ballistic missile that is fully fueled and which U.S. satellites have monitored for more than a month. If so, we hope we’ll also learn that the U.S. …
