• Technology

    White House To Scrap Eastern European Missile Defense Shield

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 9.17.2009 11 Comments

    Reversing years of Bush administration policy, the White House announced that it has scrapped plans for an Eastern European component of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) shield. Instead of placing radar and interceptors in Poland and the Czech Republic, the Obama Administration will instead deploy anti-missile capable warships in southern Europe and/or Turkey. In addition to reorienting from a Russian threat to an Iranian missile threat, the move also means a shift from speculative, advanced anti-missile technology to older, proven systems.

    9.18.2009 at 09:01am - Comment by ErnieWerle

    At the end of your story, is the Link: via The Wall Street Journal Did anyone read the articl in the Wall Street Journal? Or did Popsci just twist the story to support Popsci's Leftist leanings? Ernie PS With all the scientific articles available that debunk Global Warming, why doesn't Popsce ever print one? I think I know the answer!

  • Science

    Capitol Hill's Nerd in Chief

    By Posted on 7.11.2008 10 Comments

    Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey has served in Congress for a decade, but he’s not your average politico. The physicist is a five-time Jeopardy champion, an inventor of a solar collector, an arms-control expert and a former assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. He likes to pop into science conferences so that he can drop terms like “impedance matching” and not catch weird stares.

    7.14.2008 at 07:11am - Comment by ErnieWerle

    Rep. Rush Holt is a Liberal Democrat. Why does PopSci affraid to mention Party affiliation? It explains his views. ...Ernie



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