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 …
Condi Rice goes Kissinger over Rantisi Assasination
by | 2004-04-18 | No Comments
The White House has expressed concern about the killing of Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, but affirmed Israel/’s right to defend itself. The concern expressed by the White House has a Kissengerian amoralism to it. Here is Condolezza Rice, condemining Israeli executions of Hamas leaders: The president has said repeatedly to the Israelis that they need …
Secretive Chinese Hide Technology in Museum
by | 2004-04-16 | No Comments
Yesterday, I visited the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) museum. CALT designs, develops and manufactures Chinese space launch vehicles and ballistic missiles. The highlight, for me, was a “Smart Dispenser” (SD), which is a CZ-2C upper rocket stage that could be modified for use on a ballistic missile as a multiple-reentry vehicle post-boost …
