Avatar photoFMCT: Geneva Ain't a Nice Place Off Your Face

Wade Boese enters the race with an excellent piece on the US opposition to FMCT negotiations. Wade wrote about the FMCT/CD goat rodeo a few months back, but here he succinctly summarizes how China called the administration’s bluff: The United States said for years that it would be willing to entertain talks on outer space …

Avatar photoMissile Defense: To Test or Not to Test

One year after Boeing began sticking missile defense interceptors in Alaska’s frozen tundra, Alex Fryer at the Seattle Times has a long article on the travails of the US Ballistic Missile Defense System. After three flight test failures, MDA doesn’t seem to be eager to take another shot. An anonymous military official told the AP …

Avatar photoHey, buddy, want some bomb grade uranium?

These probably won’t help, but just in case. Today’s quiz is on who is making it easier for terrorists to get the bomb. 1. Which country is currently known to be exporting highly enriched uranium, in other words, bomb-grade nuclear material? a) North Korea b) Nigeria c) the United States of America d) Iran e) …

Avatar photoKinetic Energy Cavity Penetrator Weapon

I wrote a post at DefenseTech.org about the Kinetic Energy Cavity Penetrator Weapon, a novel conventional bunker buster concept developed by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. You can click on the image for a .pdf of the patent application.