The Defense Appropriations Conference report is out. As expected, the Appropriations Conference gave $4.0 M to PE 0604327F Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat System (HDBTDS) Program for a conventional penetrator sled test as a sort of alternative to the terminated Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP). The Conference Report did not address the crucial question …
KRL Junk Orders
by | 2005-12-27 | 3 Comments
Mark Hibbs reveals that Pakistan’s Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) hid orders for prohibited centrifuge components within larger “junk” orders, in hopes of diguising the sensitive item or overhwhelming export control authorities: After the late 1970s, when intelligence agencies in the Urenco countries—Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.—confirmed that Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan had been …
Happy X Mas
by | 2005-12-25 | No Comments
Mark Strauss, editor at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, observed that the Crate and Barrel “Glitter Tree” looks strangely like warheads in a MIRV cofiguration. I agreed. I guess that is a sign to take some time off …
Paragliding with LA Catholic Worker
by | 2005-12-23 | No Comments
A reader notes that, among the FBI documents related to domestic surveillance the ACLU obtained, one document details surveillance of a protest, planned by Los Angeles Catholic Worker, of a 2001 test of what was then called the National Missile Defense (NMD) System. The FBI imagined that Catholic Worker and other groups might attempt to …
