House and Senate Appropriators recently terminated an Air Force program called the Counter Surveillance Reconnaissance System. CSRS (pronounced like “scissors”) was a ground-based, mobile system designed to use reversible, non-damaging effects to temporarily impair reconnaissance satellites. The system was expected to reach IOC in 2007, but the Appropriators removed the $ 53 M in FY …
CBO report on Boost Phase
by | 2004-07-26 | No Comments
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.
by | 2004-07-21 | No Comments
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
by | 2004-07-18 | No Comments
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.
