Looks like MDA is just as confused by the brackets around the $68.0 M for NFIRE as anybody else. Here/’s what I can figure out: MDA will remove the Kill Vehicle (KV) from NFIRE satellite, leaving just the Tracking Sensor Payload (TSP) onboard, MDA will use the NFIRE KV as a ground-based risk reduction asset …
Out-wonked/with a little help from my friends
by | 2004-08-19 | No Comments
Josh Marshall points out a discrepancy in a recent speech by John Bolton that adds to the list of “repeated, public mistatements, exaggerations and distortions of intelligence about Iran” offered by the Bush Administration: … Bolton said that the Iranians told their German, French and British counterparts that they could produce enough uranium for a …
The Politics of Space Weapons
by | 2004-08-18 | No Comments
Sumitra Rajagopalan, a freelance writer and Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at the University of Montreal, has an opinion piece in the Toronto Star entitled, “The politics of space weapons.” I get a shout out, though I am quoted as saying there is $14.0 M in the budget for the space-based interceptor test bed (There …
Secretary Rumsfeld meet Dr. Freud
by | 2004-08-18 | No Comments
While criticizing missile defense opponents, Secretary Rumsfeld invoked a favorite platitude–“weakness is provocative”–and, apparently inadvertantly, implied the President/’s policy in Iraq has weakened the country and encouraged terrorist attacks: “History has taught us that weakness is provocative,” Rumsfeld said. “To the extent that people see an area of weakness, they will take advantage of it, …
