A proposal to cut $46 million from Cooperative Threat Reduction programs in the FY 2006 budget has been reversed. CTR will, instead, enjoy a $5 M increase in FY 2005. Or that is what I hear from contractors. [The Boston Globe now reports that the White House over-ruled the Defense Department and restored the money.] …
Bolton Out?
by | 2005-01-06 | No Comments
John Bolton appears to be leaving for the private sector now that my old boss, Bob Zoellick, will be nominated as Deputy Secretary of State. (Yes, I worked a bit for Zoellick at CSIS. We didn’t really click, as you might imagine.) Don’t get all excited, though. Reuter’s reports that Space-based Bob Joseph is in …
NSPD 28: Nuclear Weapons Command, Control, Safety, and Security
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I think that I’ve discovered a previously undisclosed National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) relating to nuclear weapons. Moreover, I worry that it lays the groundwork to build new nuclear weapons and resume nuclear testing. The source? National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) Policy Planning Director John Harvey’s biography! Prepared for a recent CISAC conference, Harvey’s biography …
Hair Trigger in Space
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Adam Herbert, a senior editor at AFA Magazine, writes that Air Force Space Command is attempting to install a hair trigger in outer space: Over the years, space essentially has been a militarily benign environment. For that reason, operators had come to assume that failures were the result of equipment malfunctions – not the deliberate …
