Avatar photoBallistic and Cruise Missile Threat (NAIC, 2000)

For some reason, MDA has made the 2000 edition of Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat insanely difficult to find. Here it is.

Avatar photoGarwin on Missile Defense

Dick Garwin has an article on missile defense in Scientific American. Garwin concludes that “despite the more than $80 billion spent by the U.S. on missile defense since 1985, this system will not provide significant protection for many years, if ever.”

Avatar photoBush Will Use 2nd Term to Sack ElBaradei

If Bush wins re-election, Washington will “move from urging him to [leave the IAEA] to active opposition” to his reappointment, a senior U.S. official told Reuters.

Avatar photoBushehr Update

Another colleague who saw the same unclassified-but-not-publicly-available Livermore briefing on Bushehr “came away with the same sense – the reactor, in large part because of its mixed design heritage is a piece of garbage. It is, of course, true that Pu will be produced as is the nature of fissioning uranium. That said, the reactor …