Of the many things I wanted to do on Monday (and didn’t), one was to pop over to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ new digs on 19th St. for The CIRUS Reactor and The U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement: Will India Declare a “Peaceful Uses Only” Reactor To Be a Civilian or a Military Facility? starring Sandy …
DefenseTech on Eavesdropping
by | 2005-12-20 | No Comments
It’s a little hard to focus on the impending resumption of EU3-Iran talks when the Bush Administration is riding roughshod over the Constitution. Damhoudère, Praxis Rerum Criminalium, Antwerp, 1556 Ha, ha. Just kidding. I love you guys. Please don’t waterboard me in Gitmo. Anywho. No one is covering this NSA eavesdropping story better than Noah …
WSJ On Reliable Replacement Warhead
by | 2005-12-16 | 2 Comments
Carla Anne Robbins, writing in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has a long article summarizing the Reliable Replacement Warhead program (A blog has posted the full text of Robbins’ article). Unfortunately, the article suffers from the shallow “he said, she said” style of journalism that simply presents unsupported assertions in matched pairs (The RRW …
New Triad 4: ChiCom EMP Threat?
by | 2005-12-15 | 1 Comment
During this morning’s panel on Nuclear Weapons and the New Triad, former Chairman of the Defense Science Board John Foster warned of electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats, including: ChiCOMs, in the context of the 7th Fleet’s possible defense of Taiwan. I’ve not see a lot about this subject, although the subject apparently came up in some …
