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 …
Hey, buddy, want some bomb grade uranium?
by | 2005-07-19 | 5 Comments
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) …
Kinetic Energy Cavity Penetrator Weapon
by | 2005-07-18 | 1 Comment
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.
China and "No First Use"
by | 2005-07-17 | No Comments
General Zhu Chenghu (below, right), Dean of the Defense College at the Chinese National Defense University (Guofang Daxue), told a group of Hong Kong journalists including the Financial Times’s Alexandra Harney that China might use nuclear weapons first in a conflict over Taiwan: If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the …
