Avatar photoOn Bilateral v. Multilateral talks with North Korea

The wierdest moment of the Presidential debate was the candidates getting wonky over the merits of bilateral vs. multilateral negotiations. I was going to do my best to explain the difference, but Peter Scoblic beat me to it with an op-ed, “Why N. Korea Talks Matter So Much,” in the Los Angeles Times. Long-story short: …

Avatar photoThe whole story about Libya

Paul Kerr notes that Newsweek (October 11, 2004) has the other shoe dropping on Administration claims about its role in disarming Libya: “We convinced Libya to disarm,” Bush said. But in fact the British played the lead role in the negotiations. And the talks succeeded only after the British managed to sideline the Bush administration/’s …

Avatar photoCounter Satellite Communications System Deployed

Lockheed Martin has delivered the first Counter Satellite Communications System (or just Counter Communications System) to 76th Space Control Squadron in Colorado. The announcement was made by U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Larry James in an interview at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space 2004 conference. The press coverage failed to actually give …

Avatar photoKerr on Sanger on Kerry on S2R

Paul Kerr, at the Arms Control Association, notes that David Sanger’s NYT article today on the debate “is pretty good, but he really got this part wrong: Mr. Kerry argued repeatedly that North Korea posed a far greater threat than Iraq to the United States, but that Mr. Bush had failed to face up to …