The Experimental Spacecraft System (XSS)-11 is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force base between 6:34 to 7 am PDT (9:34-10:00 am EDT) today (Monday, April 11). (More) The XSS-11 (right) was scheduled to launch in mid-March, before a problem with the Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket delayed the launch. XSS-11 is the second in a …
SSCI Iraq Investigation in Process…
by | 2005-04-10 | No Comments
The Senate Intel Committee’s Iraq investigation came up today on Meet the Press. It seems that Roberts has now said publicly that he will do as he promised a while back – investigate the Exec. Branch’s use of the intel it received: SEN. ROBERTS: Tim, we’re going to do that. I will bring it here. …
The Bomb, Dmitry. The Hydrogen Bomb.
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Did India successfully test a two-stage thermonuclear device in May 1998? There are substantial reasons for skepticism. India claimed that it detonated three devices on 11 May 1998 at Pokhran (right)—a 43-kiloton thermonuclear explosion, a 12-kiloton fission explosion and a 0.2-kiloton fission explosion. (India then claims to have conducted low yield tests on 13 May …
Dan Blumenthal: China Marketing to the Mullahs?
by | 2005-04-09 | 9 Comments
Dan Blumenthal is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. That is a fact. Here are a few more facts about Blumenthal’s latest screed, “Providing Arms: China and the Middle East”, which appears in Daniel Pipes’ right-wing rag, the Middle East Quarterly. Blumenthal’s article starts strong—which is to say that it begins with a …
