Pentagon Test Czar Sees Possible Need for Interceptor Component Redesign Rachel Oswald January 29, 2014 The Pentagon’s testing czar on Wednesday said a critical piece of the U.S. missile-defense system may require a redesign following multiple test failures. The Defense Department’s operational test and evaluation office concluded in its fiscal 2013 annual report that repeated […]
Reuters Story on Missile Defense Re-Design Quotes Kingston Reif
U.S. should consider re-design of missile defense system: report January 29. 2014 By Andrea Shalal-Esa (Reuters) – The U.S. Missile Defense Agency should consider redesigning a key part of its ground-based missile defense system after a series of test failures in recent years, the Pentagon’s chief arms tester said in a new report due to […]
Engineering & Technology Magazine Story on Missile Defense Flaws Quotes Kingston Reif
Call for flawed US missile defence system redesign By Tereza Pultarova The US Missile Defense Agency should consider redesigning a key part of its ground-based missile defence system following a series of test failures, a new report has said. The report by Pentagon’s chief arms tester has reviewed glitches that occurred during the system’s testing […]
National Geographic: Gregory Koblentz Quoted on Possible Nazi Malaria Mosquito Warfare
Scientist Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security member Gregory Koblentz, the Director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at George Mason University, was quoted in a National Geographic piece on Nazi’s biological lab at Dachau concentration camp: Gregory Koblentz of George Mason University’s biodefense graduate program remains unconvinced of the offensive nature of the Dachau work. […]
The “Dismantlement” SNAFU
Last week, in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in Davos, Switzerland, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stated that Iran will not destroy any of its approximately 19,000 centrifuges, roughly 10,000 of which are currently being used to enrich uranium.