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 …
Common Aero Vehicle Restrictions
by | 2004-08-22 | No Comments
In my August 6 post regarding the award of a contract to develop a hypersonic technology vehicle under DARPA/’s FALCON/Common Aero Vehicle program, I neglected to mention the restrictions on the Common Aero Vehicle program that emerged from conference. The Appropriators agreed to $29.1 M for two programs supporting the development of the Common Aero …
