CISSM is hosting Alexei Arbatov, Senior Research Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to discuss his paper (with co-author Major General Vladimir Dvorkin, Ret.) on Revising Nuclear Deterrence. Among other things, Arbatov was deputy chair of the defense committee of the Russian Parliament (State Duma). Dvorkin is a former Strategic Rocket Forces officer. …
Red Star Rogue: Pinch Loaf
by | 2005-11-02 | 3 Comments
One of the persistent problems with the intelligence community (and its critics) is a form of selection bias—some of the folks who take an interest in intelligence matters do so because they’ve seen one to many James Bond movies. Even a tiny number of these folks can really gum up the works for the vast …
XSS-11 Images Minotaur Upper Stage
by | 2005-11-01 | 1 Comment
Dawn Stover of Popular Science obtained this image through the Freedom of Information Act. The image, taken by the XSS-11 microsatellite, shows the upper stage of the Minotaur 1 that carried the microsatellite into orbit. If you are interested, here is an AFRL briefing on XSS-11. Arms Control Wonk.com wrote a pair of stories about …
Indian Space Driven By Microsat Hoax
by | 2005-10-31 | 1 Comment
More images of space-themed stamps from India. K.S. Jayaraman of Space News (“Indian Government Set To Create Aerospace Command”) reports that Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Air Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi told reporters India would establish Aerospace Command for various military space missions. I blogged this back in May. IAF officers have been pushing such …
