During the Reagan Administration’s runaway expansion of the Pentagon budget, the Center for Defense Information in Washington was an island of sanity for reporters grappling with astronomical dollar figures, pseudo-scientific engineering, and blanket secrecy. Founded by two Navy admirals, Eugene Carroll (1923-2003) and Gene La Rocque, who died last Monday, and staffed with articulate technical […]
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Anyone who cares enough actually to read the “Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement” that Russia withdrew from this week, whose language is remarkably clear, will see that it was based entirely on American use of the MOX reactor at Savannah River to change weapons-grade Pu into nonexplosive commercial fuel. The Russians have their own such […]
What do we do with the words of an old man who warns us not to do what he spent his whole life doing? Pity the fool? Take his hard-earned advice? Take his last confession? Today, former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, who turns 89 next month, uses what could be his last hurrah […]
Being filthy rich has always guaranteed a rapt American audience for any man’s crank ideas. The latest iteration of this, besides the Presidential campaign, is the huge media stage available to Silicon Valley billionaires, who all stumbled upon a Midas moment in the dim light at dawn of the internet era. They now believe that […]
The latest installment of Sam Roberts’s fractured fairy tale version of history via the New York Times obit section arrives as a paean to Sam Iacobellis, an engineer at Rockwell International, the Southern California aerospace company that during the Reagan era was the largest contractor for both the Pentagon and NASA (it went defunct as […]
Besides spawning the richest peacetime armaments industry in history, the atomic bomb fueled the growth of a quasi-academic field called “strategic thought,” which while sounding like something everyone would love to have from time to time is actually the quintessence of arm-chair generaling. It refers to theorizing about the actual or threatened use of nuclear […]
Finally, the FDA moves against germaphobia hucksters. Plain old soap and water will do. Always have, always will.
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While news about self-driving cars becomes commonplace, especially when they crash, the Pentagon continues its own specialized foray into the realm of autonomous technology. A report from the Defense Science Board summarizes what lies ahead as the military services try to adapt and evolve existing tech such as Tesla’s Model S, Amazon’s robotic distribution centers, […]
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