Space News on Monday reports similar information to my August 20 post, announcing that MDA will (1) remove the kill vehicle from NFIRE, (2) use the NFIRE KV as a ground-based risk reduction asset, and (3) slip the launch date to 4Q FY06. Two items of note: First, the KEI program office appears genuinely baffled …
NATO Nuclear Weapons
by | 2004-08-25 | No Comments
With the Bush Administration proposing a gradual withdrawal of some 70,000 US troops from Europe to “help us fight and win these wars of the 21st century,” why did NATO recently reaffim support for keeping US nuclear weapons forward deployed in Europe? While the President claims that “The world has changed a great deal and …
Edwards Introduces Dr. Strangelove
by | 2004-08-24 | No Comments
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. John Edwards has taped an introduction for a Turner Classic Movies screening of Stanley Kubrick/’s 1964 Cold War classic Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The Chicago Tribune reports: Edwards says he selected Kubrick/’s black comedy because “I believe that one of the …
Rumsfeld On Missile Defense
by | 2004-08-23 | No Comments
Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Seventh Annual Space and Missile Defense Conference are now available from the Department of Defense. CDI/’s Victoria Samson, who attended the gathering, noticed a mildly Orwellian editorial decision: One part of the speech which somehow didn/’t make it to this transcript was when an audience member …
