ALASKA MISSILE DEFENSE EARLY BIRD WEEKLY

(Twenty-Ninth Edition)

Compiled by: Ms. Hillary Pesanti, Community Relations Specialist

Command Representative for Missile Defense

907.552.1038

hillary.pesanti@elmendorf.af.mil

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2002-SEPTEMBER 20, 2002

ALASKA SPECIFIC NEWS BREAKS

· BG Holly to speak at Friday’s chamber meeting, Delta Wind

· Missile defense dollars to Delta school district: Letter to the Editor, Delta Wind

· Missile wars, 60 minutes

· Prehistoric tusk uncovered at Fort Greely

· Few Deltans find jobs on Greely, Fairbanks Daily News Miner

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2002

· Missile defense briefing report No. 69, American Foreign Policy Council

· Missile defense briefing report No. 70, American Foreign Policy Council

· Decoy Rejection Gains Pentagon's Attention, Aviation Week & Space Technology

· Joint staff study: Unify U.S. transformation, Defense News

· Panel making progress on missile defense, sources say, Aerospace Daily

· Israeli missile defenses beefed up, The Guardian (London)

· Activist discusses space development, Cornell Daily Sun

· Defense watch, Defense Daily

· Back to nuclear overkill, The Weekend Australian

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2002

· Czech Republic seeks joining missile defense shield project, BBC Monitoring International Reports

· SBIRS Low team finalizes contract terms for first phase development, Defense Daily

· North Korea amasses chemical weapons, Washington Times

· Truth teller: The nuclear scientist the left loves to hate, National Review

· The contemporary security dilemma: Deterring a Taiwan conflict, The Washington Quarterly

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2002

· SBIRS Low demonstration to rely on old hardware, Space News

· Air defenses relaxed after 9/11 anniversary, Washington Post

· Canada, U.S. discuss better cross-border military co-operation, The Guardian (Charlottetown)

· Local Lockheed plant gets Navy contract, Baltimore Sun

· A look at latest in tools of war; military expo attracts big guns, the curious and protesters in NW, Washington Post

· Defense white paper may not define North Korea as ‘main enemy,’ Korea Herald

· Air Force Space Command: Two decades of space, Air Force Space Command News (Service Peterson Air Force Base

o The formation of Space Command

o Satellite control

o Desert Storm: The first “space war”

o Continued growth in the 1990s

o Air Force Space Command in the post-Cold War era

· No Nukes North bulletin: International days of protest to stop militarization of space, No Nukes North website

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2002

· Iran test-fires ballistic missile, Washington Post

· Missile defense money pivotal for House and Senate conferees, Congressional Quarterly Weekly

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