FASTT track to hypersonic flight.
Alliant Techsystems, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) successfully ground-launched and flew a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA in a pre-dawn launch on Saturday 10 December. It was claimed to be the first-ever free flight...

Missile defense malfunction: why the proposed U.S. missile defenses in Europe will not work *.
The U.S. proposal to establish missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic has exacerbated relations with Russia to a degree not seen since the height of the Cold War, and has done so despite the fact that the system has no demonstrated capability to defend the United...

Confronting the Threat of Ballistic Missile Proliferation.
DESPITE THE END of the Cold War, America has not fully escaped the threat of attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). On Jan. 23, 1996, a triumphant Pres. Clinton proclaimed, "For the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age, there are no Russian missiles pointed at America's...

That shield, not a sword: how goes Ronald Reagan's goal of anti-ballistic-missile defenses?
THE uproar over the expected North Korean missile test brings the question of missile defense, once again, to the fore. Before Ronald Reagan gave his 1983 "Star Wars" speech, both Democrats and Republicans believed that the only way to counter the USSR's nuclear threat was to deter aggression with...

Failure to launch.
WHEN it became clear that the Taepodong-2 missile North Korea test-launched early on July 4 had broken up less than a minute into flight and plunged into the Sea of Japan, many Americans felt a sense of relief. After all, the missile--belonging to a class thought capable of reaching...

A destabilizing shield.
Byline: The Register-Guard President Bush's call for the United States to deploy a limited missile defense system in 2004 came last week, as the White House continued to build a case for a pre-emptive war against Iraq. The missile shield will have dangerous consequences for the United...

NFIRE satellite completes missile defence experiment.
The Near Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE) satellite, built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, has successfully completed its first experiment for the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA). In the experiment, NFIRE collected high- and low-resolution images of a Chimera boosting missile--a modified Minuteman II booster vehicle--launched from...

Keep Space for Peace!
Excerpts from WILPF's Keep Space for Peace statement Fifty years ago, on 4 October 1957, the launch of the Sputnik satellite changed the world forever. A new era of political, military, technological, and scientific developments began as the world entered the space age. Sputnik roused fears of...

Amending Japan's constitution.
Byline: Francis N. Tolentino IN the article we published last week, we spoke of how the nuclear missile test launches by North Korea once again revived the controversy on their nuclear program and drew negative worldwide attention. Condemned by antinuclear proliferation advocates, these launches have greatly alarmed...

Denel Dynamics.
Denel Dynamics, the missiles and UAV division of Denel, has launched the latest generation of the A-Darter air-to-air missile programme to be developed by and for both the South African National Defence Force and Brazilian Air Force. The co-development of the missile between South Africa and Brazil not only...