So does anyone really think we’re moving towards a world without nuclear weapons? We know Pakistan isn’t and now we know the Chinese aren’t. As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald via Wikileaks (and remember you can’t spell Assange without a-s-s): HIGH-RANKING Chinese officials have declared there can be no limit to the expansion of [...]
Archive for February, 2011
A World Without Nuclear Weapons? Hardly.
Posted: February 28, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Arms Control, China, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, WikiLeaks
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Shuttle Launch Video
Posted: February 26, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Shuttle Launch Video
You have to admit, it’s an interesting – and lucky – way to see a shuttle launch. Shuttle launch from a window seat.
Today’s Sputnik Moment
Posted: February 24, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Industrial Base, NASA, National Security Space Strategy, National Space Policy, Space Industrial Base, Sputnik
Our Sputnik moment in 1957 was the realization that the Soviets were able to do something that shocked us. That something was to launch a rocket and orbit a spacecraft. It was shocking because of the implication: nuclear weapons could conceivably be delivered from the Soviet Union and strike American soil in as little as [...]
About What You Would Expect
Posted: February 24, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Army, Caldwell, Rolling Stone
Story line: powerless little guy gets hosed for trying to do what’s right. Story line source: powerless little guy. Story line promoter: Rolling Stone. Result: exactly what you’d expect…”Round up the usual suspects.”
What Can Space Do For You?
Posted: February 24, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Commercial Space, ISIS, Nuclear Proliferation, Syria
Space—good old open source space—can show that Syrian nuclear activities need to be investigated with much greater vigor. Well done, ISIS.
Space Policy = What’s Funded = Regulatory Capture
Posted: February 23, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Commercial Space, Congress, NASA, New Space
Regulatory capture challenges every benefit new space stands to bring forward. Read more about regulatory capture and commercial space here. If you like government space, you may also enjoy government cheese.
Space: Aim Low
Posted: February 23, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Air Force, Defense Industrial Base, NASA, Space Acquisition
It seems a common pattern of DoD and Air Force thinking is emerging: aim low. How so? First, consider the next Air Force bomber. Now, consider space. In both cases, “exquisite” has become a dirty acquisition word and it may remain so until further notice. As reported by Aviation Week: The U.S. Air Force is [...]
Taking Space Weather Seriously
Posted: February 22, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Solar Max, Solar Maximum, Space Weather
Here we are approaching the expected 2013 solar max. What to do? Perhaps ponder the cautionary tale of the rumored first draft of George Harrison’s Here comes the Sun: Solar max, it’s been a dormant 11-year period Solar max, it has been years since you’ve been here Here come the sunspots, Here come the sunspots, [...]
This snipped image is from the Best of the Web Today: As Uncle Walter would say, “and that’s the way it is…” Read the USA Today article here and the more interesting Onion article here.
Libya Practices Space Warfare
Posted: February 22, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Arms Control, Libya, Space Warfare
The Telegraph describes the space warfare that Libya is practicing: satellite jamming of Al Jazeera. While arms controllers focus on “space weapons,” weapons-free space warfare continues to be an effective method of controlling the coin of the realm in space, that is, information. With satellite jamming, Libya is getting the same effect – denying their [...]
