Jim Oberg is wrong to dismiss the controversy over the Near Field Infra Red Experiment, which will test a Missile Defense Agency kill vehicle in space, as the result of “careless usage of provocative terminology” by the Missile Defense Agency that has “converted a fairly routine upcoming military space test into a cause celebre for …
Albania to the Rescue
by | 2004-04-20 | No Comments
Just as news of the Spanish and Honduran pullouts from Iraq was giving “false comfort to terrorists” and evil-doers the world over, Albania announces it may increase its “71-member-strong contingent patrolling the northern city of Mosul under U.S. command.” “The public commitment from Tirana was bound to be welcome news to the United States after …
China launches small satellite
by | 2004-04-19 | No Comments
China successfully sent two new satellites, Experiment Satellite I (Shiyan 1) and Nano-satellite I (Nuoxing 1), into space early Monday with a Long March II C carrier rocket, according to the People/’s Daily. People/’s Daily hailed the launch as a “technological breakthrough in the country/’s development of small satellites.” The launch is welcome news for …
Mordechai Vanunu, Israel and the Bomb
by | 2004-04-19 | No Comments
Mordechai Vanunu will be released from an Israeli prison Wednesday. Vanunu was a technician in the Israeli nuclear weapons program who took his camera to work one day. When The Sunday Times published the photographs along with technical analysis in a 1986 article entitled “Revealed: The Secrets of Israel/’s Nuclear Arsenal,” the world knew a …
