Scott Gearity meets Kafka.
State Department ISN Bureau
by | 2005-10-03 | 1 Comment
Dave Ruppe in Global Security Newswire reports “the U.S. State Department this month quietly began implementing a major reorganization plan to eliminate its arms control and nonproliferation bureaus, despite a U.S. Senate hold on the plan…” Congressional Staff seem bewildered that this notice appeared in the Federal Register issued by the “Bureau of International Security …
Senate: Restore NFIRE KV
by | 2005-09-30 | 1 Comment
David Ruppe at Global Security Newswire got ahold of the Senate Approprations report. The NFIRE Kill Vehicle is ba-aaaaack: The Ballistic Missile Defense System [BMDS] Interceptor program element consists of the NFIRE program and the KEI program. Because these programs have no related program elements, the Committee recommends the realignment of the NFIRE program to …
RRW: Los Alamos vs. Livermore
by | 2005-09-29 | 1 Comment
“Remember: The Soviets are the competition. Los Alamos is the enemy.” Statement Attributed to a Weapons Designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Stephen Schwartz on the RRW program Congress imagined the Reliable Replacement Warhead program as an effort to “improve the reliability, longevity, and certifiability of existing weapons and their components.” The devil, however, is …
