Continuing the Cuba BW thread, The Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq contains the backstory on Undersecretary Bolton’s effort to distort intelligence regarding Cuba. The New York Times contained no reference either to this story or the fact that it appears in the Select …
Minimum Means of Reprisal Revisited
by | 2004-09-20 | No Comments
After some adventures in pagination, I successfully submitted the final copy of the dissertation, The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age, today. For my defense, I dispensed with a powerpoint presentation. Edward Tufte, in The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. I think that the handout, which remains a work in …
New Assessment of Cuban BW Effort
by | 2004-09-18 | No Comments
The lead paragraph of “In Stricter Study, U.S. Scales Back Claim on Cuba Arms” in the New York Times (September 17, 2004) leads: The Bush administration, using stringent standards adopted after the failure to find banned weapons in Iraq, has conducted a new assessment of Cuba’s biological weapons capacity and concluded that it is no …
DARPA gets the X-37
by | 2004-09-17 | No Comments
DARPA is now running the X-37 program. A few days ago, Space News reported that NASA had turned the X-37 program over to an unnamed government agency. NASA spokesman Michael Braukus has now confirmed that DARPA was the government agency in question. The X-37, designed to operate in both the orbital and reentry phases of …
