The Bush Administration and the Missile Defense Agency may run into trouble over their plans to place weapons in outer space. The Senate Armed Services Committee, in its defense authorization mark-up, directed the Missile Defense Agency “to provide the congressional defense committees a report no later than March 15, 2005, on the risks to space …
A bad couple of days for arms control …
by | 2004-05-11 | No Comments
Today, two pieces of terrible news for the arms control community and, more generally, anyone serious about discouraging the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. First, the United States collapsed the NPT Prepcom. The third nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee (NPT PrepCom) meeting for the 2005 NPT Review Conference (RevCon) — which Greenpeace calls …
Bush to give July address on Space
by | 2004-05-11 | No Comments
Bush plans to defend his space exploration initiative in a speech timed to coincide with the release of a report by a presidential commission to review the plan, according to administration sources quoted by United Press International. UPI also reported that the Hubble Space Telescope may get a reprieve. The Administration/’s hostility toward Hubble has …
Rumsfeld on Torture
by | 2004-05-08 | No Comments
I wouldn/’t call it a “torture” tape. I don/’t think cutting someone/’s head off is torture, just to be precise.Donald Rumsfeld, October 2003 Some other stunningly insensitive remarks about torture from the SECDEF: We don/’t torture people. To suggest that anyone would be engaged in torture or conduct inconsistent with the Geneva Conventions, it seems …
