I was struggling for something interesting to say about North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Choe Su-hon/’s claim that S2R* had “already reprocessed 8,000 wasted fuel rods and transformed them into arms.” [*Secretive Stalinist Regime. Apparently respectable news outlets think this term is descriptive. ] Something that I have noticed is that the Chinese simply don/’t …
Missile Defense Errata
by | 2004-09-29 | No Comments
MDA (operating in its little know role as a 527 for the Bush Administration) is sticking interceptors in the frozen tundra of Alaska and calling it a missile defense. Not that the thing works: MDA has delayed the next flight test, most recently scheduled for September, due to software problems. MDA hasn’t managed to stage …
High quality work over at MDA
by | 2004-09-26 | No Comments
The GAO just released a shocking report, Diploma Mills: Diploma Mills Are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees at Government Expense to Federal Employees, that finds “28 [GS-15 (or equivalent) and above] employees [from eight agencies] listed degrees from unaccredited schools…” So, I naturally googled websites from the Defense Department, which was not …
Who says China is not transparent?
by | 2004-09-25 | No Comments
I was reading the Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) when I came across a most unusual column. It appears that someone felt that a CCTV program called “The Missile Brigade Commander” lacked realism. So, in case you had any questions, this is how a brigade commander oversees the launch of a Chinese ballistic missile: The television …
