CISAC has made audio files of its August 11 Seminar Post-Cold War U. S. Nuclear Strategy:A Search for Technical and Policy Common Ground available on their website. Representative David Hobson (R-OH) just takes the piss out of the nuclear weapons complex — he thinks “some of the staff and certainly much of thinking [at the …
Missile Defense, Russian reaction …
by | 2004-08-29 | No Comments
Bill Gertz reports Rummy/’s every word with the enthusiasm of an eromenos: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld took a jab at critics of U.S. missile defense efforts during a speech last week in Huntsville, Ala. He noted his cordial discussions days earlier with Russian officials on missile defense and said that critics, primarily liberal weapons-control …
Intelligence Analysis and Bayesian Analysis
by | 2004-08-28 | No Comments
I am writing a piece for Arms Control Today on foreign counterspace systems. The mandate was to summarize foreign counterspace capabilities to accompany an article being written by Michael Krepon. The more I look, the more I realize that the intelligence community on this issue is all method, no evidence. Most people reason by taking …
China and Russia Submit Non-papers in CD
by | 2004-08-27 | No Comments
China and Russia submitted a pair of non-papers to the Conference on Disarmament in speeches by Ambassadors Leonid A. Skotnikov (Russia) and Hu Xiaodi (China). The two speeches had a de facto division of labor, with Skotnikov talking substance and Hu talking process. Skotnikov’s reinforced the general argument that this is about rebuilding US-Russian strategic …
