MORE LIGHT ON THE DEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> 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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