While the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson was working on the infamous Smile LP, he heard a copy of the Beatle’s Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Fearing that he couldn’t match the achievement, Wilson had a nervous breakdown, spending a year in bed and shelving Smile for more than thirty years (He finally released a …
ElBaradei Accepts Nobel Prize
by | 2005-12-11 | No Comments
Yeah, what he said: I believe it is because our security strategies have not yet caught up with the risks we are facing. The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats. A recent United Nations …
Will MDA Ever Attempt Another Intercept?
by | 2005-12-09 | No Comments
Arms Control Today asked MDA Director Trey Obering about speculation that MDA is scaling back testing to avoid further failures. Obering asserted that MDA would conduct four flight tests over the next year: ACT: Going back to testing, there are some people that have read the Independent Review Team report as suggesting that MDA should …
Alternative Cover Sheets for Classified Info
by | 2005-12-08 | 1 Comment
From today’s Secrecy News: ALTERNATIVE COVER SHEETS FOR CLASSIFIED INFO While underlying questions of secrecy and disclosure carry a potent primeval charge, the actual implementation of government secrecy policy is about as boring as it could be. In a rare attempt to leaven the subject with humor, some unidentified person has produced spoofs of the …
