The highlight of the Workshop on Technical Aspects of Space Security, so far, has been the tour of The Beijing Museum of Astronautics. I have some great pictures of myself with China’s first ballistic missile (the 1059) and its first nuclear armed ballistic missile (the DF-2/CSS-1). Visitors can actually look inside the missiles – which …
Putin Calls for Space Weapons Ban
by | 2004-04-13 | No Comments
In a speech on the 43rd anniversary of Yuri Gagarin/’s epochal spaceflight, President Vladimir Putin called for the demilitarization of outer space: “We all know that for many years, space was an area for military and political rivalry. Today, we are doing, and must do, everything to demilitarize space. And by turning it into an …
Chinese kidnapped in Iraq
by | 2004-04-12 | No Comments
Xinhua is reporting that seven Chinese nationals were kidnapped by armed men in Fallujah, after they entered Iraq via Jordan. I just arrived in Beijing for a conference on Technical Aspects of Space Security at Beihang (Beijing Aeronautical and Aerospace University). Update: The seven Chinese were released almost immediately.
Iraq vs. Alaska: Battle of the Boondoggle Bridges
by | 2004-04-10 | No Comments
I can/’t let up on the bridge thing, I suppose, because Bremer compared the Iraqi reconstruction effort to the Marshall plan: “The grants to Iraq the President seeks bespeak grandeur of vision equal to the one which created the free world at the end of World War II.” The Marshall Plan? Were I an Iraqi, …
