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MORE LIGHT ON THE DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 07:19:32 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:36:59 -0500 (EST) From: GLIGOR1 () aol com Subject: Fwd: MORE LIGHT ON THE DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD To: dave () farber net Return-path: <Wdimitr () aol com> From: Wdimitr () aol com Full-name: Wdimitr Message-ID: <ea.40adc6b7.2cd3d8cc () aol com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:25:00 EST Subject: MORE LIGHT ON THE DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD To: GLIGOR1 () aol com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 124 MORE LIGHT ON THE DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD The Defense Science Board, a Pentagon advisory panel, is reportedly poised to recommend a major new departure in U.S. defense policy involving development of a new generation of nuclear weapons (as reported by Ian Hoffman in the Oakland Tribune last week, following up on a story in Jane's Defence Weekly). But who is the Defense Science Board (DSB)? The Pentagon doesn't make it easy to find out, having deleted the names of the membership from the DSB website (Secrecy News, 10/28/03). A current roster of the DSB membership appears in the October 2003 DSB Newsletter, which also reports on the status of the panel's various studies. Along with the "Future Strategic Strike Forces" study, which addresses next-generation nuclear weapons, and many other topics, the DSB is also looking at intelligence reform. Thus, one pending study "will address alternative ways of managing U.S. foreign intelligence endeavors... by focusing not on the means by which intelligence information is collected, but rather the ends it is to serve," according to the October 2003 DSB Newsletter. The 2003 DSB Newsletters are not available on the official DSB web site, but they are now posted on the FAS web site here: http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/dsb/index.html Steven Aftergood Project on Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists web: www.fas.org/sgp/index.html email: saftergood () fas org voice: (202) 454-4691
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