The Congressional Budget Office has released a new report on boost phase missile defense. Some notable revelations: 1. About $ 700 M of the 7.6 M for BMDS Interceptors program over the next five years will be for space-based interceptors (SBI). James Hackett, a right wing hack who takes pot shots at KEI program manager …
Phew … its done.
Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration but The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China/’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age is off to the editor (the supremely talented Laura Susan Jacobs, who freelances for those of you in need of a friendly but firm grammarian). Hoping for a (successful) defense sometime between Labor …
Me on the Great Wall
Goetz Neuneck sent along this rather silly pictre of me on the Great Wall (with Wang Ting and Scott Kemp over my shoulder and Andre Rothkirch on my left). I owe Goetz a chapter on China for his upcoming volume, The Future of Arms Control.
Defense Appropriations
Well, the Appropriations conference is moving at light speed. We may have a conference agreement as early as next week. For those of you space inclined, here is a summary of the outstanding issues relating to space control and space force projection that need to be resolved.
