As a friendly reminder, the official National Space Studies Center website remains in its historical location here. A recent add to the site is a page full of links to the op-eds we’ve written, going back to early 2008. Trying to find those articles via google (they are also archived on the archive site for Air [...]
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For Those About To Read, Salute!
Posted: August 9, 2010 in Air University, Songs of Space and Nuclear War, The Blog Itself0
The Official NSSC Webpage
Posted: July 19, 2010 in Air University, NSSC, The Blog Itself, The Wright StuffTags: NSSC
The official National Space Studies Center webpage now has a link which has copies of all the longer articles which have run in Air University’s The Wright Stuff. Thanks to Mike McKim, director of all things web-based, for getting this working!
The Mathematics of Nuclear Deterrence
Posted: May 24, 2010 in Air University, Minimal Deterrence, New York Times, No-Nukes, Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, STARTTags: Nuclear, Russia
Air University authors Gary Schaub and Jim Forsyth say the U.S. needs to unilaterally strip down to a nuclear arsenal of 311 weapons. Not 312, not 310: 311. The breakdown is 100 single-warhead ICBMs; 192 single-warhead sea-launched ballistic missiles, and 19 B-2s each carrying one single-warhead air-launched cruise missile. As an area code, 311 sounds [...]
What Would Rickover Do?
Posted: March 2, 2010 in Air University, Nuclear, Nuclear Enterprise, Nuclear Weapons, The Wright StuffTags: Nuclear
This article originally appeared in Air University’s The Wright Stuff What Would Rickover Do? by Mark Stout & Larry Chandler Admiral Hyman Rickover was quite a man. Considered the Father of the nuclear Navy, he was a man of action, served an inconceivable 60+plus years of continuous active duty (not a typo), and was highly demanding of [...]
Your Definitive Space Overview
Posted: October 29, 2009 in Air Command and Staff College, Air University, AU Press, AU-18, Space Primer, UncategorizedAir University has just released AU-18, also known as the Space Primer. The new AU-18 is the culmination of the superior efforts of a group of Air Command and Staff College and their faculty advisors, as well as the excellent work of the folks at the Air University Press. AU-18 is a fantastic compendium of most [...]
Worshipping At The Altar of Nuclear Perfection
Posted: October 19, 2009 in Air University, National Space Studies Center, Nuclear, Nuclear Perfection, The Wright StuffTags: Nuclear
Check out the latest National Space Studies Center posting via Air University’s The Wright Stuff.
New AU-18 Available Soon
Posted: October 19, 2009 in Air Command and Staff College, Air University, AU-18, Space Education, Space PrimerThe Air Command and Staff College students and faculty have put together a new Air University Space Primer, also known as AU-18. The Space Primer is an awesome document and is a tremendous place to research many things space. It has been provided to our web master for posting, which will happen any day now. [...]
