Missiles & Space

  • Evidence is mounting that Iran used beefed-up rockets

    Mounting evidence indicates the Iranian rocket recently used to launch a satellite into space was a more advanced two-stage, rather than three-stage, vehicle.

    February 18, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Space nations unsure how to handle space junk

    The United Nations, European Space Agency (ESA), NASA and other space nations are actively working to try and reduce the amount of space debris, but space experts warn it's only a matter of time before a major impact occurs during a human or robotic mission aboard the International Space Station,

    February 18, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Space crash and debris called 'catastrophic'

    U.S. and Russian satellites collided 800 km above Earth, generating debris that could damage or even destroy other satellites.  Tuesday’s smashup of a derelict Russian military satellite and a working U.S. commercial satellite occurred in the busiest part of near-Earth space.

    February 12, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Iran launches its first satellite

    Iran said Tuesday it had successfully sent its first domestically produced satellite into orbit, joining an exclusive club of fewer than a dozen nations with such capabilities.

    February 2, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Obama proposes space weapons ban

    Moments after President Obama's inauguration last week, the White House website was updated to include policy statements on a range of issues, including a pledge to restore U.S.

    January 25, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Need cash? Cut the nuclear weapons budget

    PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama needs money. "To make the investments we need," he said last week, "we'll have to scour our federal budget, line by line, and make meaningful cuts and sacrifices, as well."

    There is no better place to start than the nuclear weapons budget. He can cut obsolete programs and transfer tens of billions of dollars per year to pressing conventional military and domestic programs.

    PRESIDENT-ELECT Barack Obama needs money. "To make the investments we need," he said last week, "we'll have to scour our federal budget, line by line, and make meaningful cuts and sacrifices, as well."

    There is no better place to start than the nuclear weapons...

    December 2, 2008 - By Joe Cirincione

  • Obama and Clinton: More agreement than disagreement

    President-elect Barack Obama's selection of Senator Hillary Clinton unleashed a torrent of media coverage, "most of which has focused on grossly exaggerated disagreements during the presidential campaign and behind-the-scenes political maneuvering," says

    December 1, 2008 - By Anonymous

  • Change nuclear weapons policy? Yes, we can

    (Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Ploughshares-funded Arms Control Association, writes that the election of President Barack Obama represents a clear mandate for  transforming outdated U.S. policy on nuclear weapons and reviving U.S. leadership on disarmament and nonproliferation.)

    November 25, 2008 - By Anonymous

  • Speech to University of Oregon's Humanities Center

    The University of Oregon posted a video of Joe's speech there last May.

    November 24, 2008 - By Sarah Brown

  • Pentagon report slams missile defense agency

    "For mid-course intercept systems, the balance between qualitative improvements and deploying more of existing capabilities should be strongly in favor of qualitative improvements." Huh?

    October 21, 2008 - By Sarah Brown