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July 2001 News

  1. U.S. considers a space bomber By Paul Richter Los Angeles Times July 29, 2001 -- John E. Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org research organization, predicted that, with its Buck Rogers overtones, the space bomber "would become the poster child for the militarization of space."
  2. U.S. considers a space bomber By Paul Richter Philadelphia Inquirer July 29, 2001 -- John E. Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.org research organization, predicted that Europeans and Asians who are already nervous about the United States' growing lead in military hardware would raise new questions about American "hegemonism."
  3. 12-Hour Glitch On Spy Satellite Causes Intelligence Gap By Bill Gertz, Washington Times July 26, 2001 -- John Pike, a specialist on intelligence satellites with the private group Global Security.org, said losing contact with military satellites is not unprecedented but could have left important intelligence targets on the ground unmonitored.
  4. Missile defence is about money and it's here to stay Elaine Lafferty Irish Times July 25, 2001 - As John Pike, a Washington DC-based military analyst, told the Los Angeles Times: "Lots of kids will be sent to college, lots of swimming pools are going to get built and a lot of people will spend their career working on this project."
  5. Pentagon Blocks Public Web Site Access By David Ruppe ABCNews.com July 23, 2001 -- "My gut hunch is that this is the single largest security incident ever, in terms of number of servers, and number of pages effected, and duration," says John Pike, who heads the GlobalSecurity.org military resource site. Pike says he first noticed blocked access to the sites Thursday morning.
  6. Missile defense: Some still believe it can't be developed by Peter Pae Milwaukee Journal Sentinel July 21, 2001 -- "They have been testing this for the last two decades and they have missed more often than not," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense and space policy group that has been a vocal detractor of missile defense. "Are any of these things going to make me sleep easier at night? No, I'll still be afraid of nuclear war."
  7. Rising costs to fund International Space Station construction CBS Evening News July 20, 2001 Friday (6:30 PM ET) Mr. JOHN PIKE (Space Policy Expert): As a foreign policy initiative, as a way of keeping Russian rocket scientists in Russia and out of North Korea, the space station is a bargain, but as a science project, it's obviously a boondoggle.
  8. Pentagon Boondoggle at $100 Million a Pop BY STEVE LOPEZ Los Angeles Times July 20, 2001 -- "Let everybody who's in favor of it go down to the missile range" says John Pike, a defense policy analyst at GlobalSecurity.org. "The contractors can put on a big picnic, and all the members of Congress can attend, and we'll fire a missile at them, only this time it's a real warhead, not a dummy. If they'll do that, I'll start believing it can work."
  9. Crucial Radar Failed Missile Defense Test By Peter Pae, Los Angeles Times July 18, 2001 -- "If you are not able to make a kill assessment, you continue to have interceptors fired at targets that you've already hit," said John Pike, a defense policy analyst with GlobalSecurity.org, a nonpartisan think thank.
  10. U.S. ABM DEFENSE TEST RILES MOSCOW Artur Blinov Moscow News July 18, 2001 -- John Pike, a well-regarded U.S. expert and director of the Global Security research center, says in this connection that as soon as the facility at Fort Greely, Alaska, turns it into a site for launching interceptor strategic missiles, that would automatically mean violation of the ABM Treaty.
  11. Accused spy compromised survival plans By RICHARD SALE United Press International July 18, 2001 -- According to John Pike, director of Globalsecrity.com, a major change of approach to the issue came in the 1980s. U.S. intelligence experts realized that even though they could be hardened, huge bunkers could not escape surveillance by Soviet satellite.
  12. Nuke Shield Can't Stop Critics By Mark K. Anderson wired.com July 17, 2001 -- As John Pike put it, "One bomb gets through, and you have more dead Americans than every other war put together. What did we accomplish with all those other wars?" he asked. "We kicked out the king, we freed the slaves, we fixed Kaiser Bill and we shut down Hitler. Now what great issue will be decided by this next war? Reunification of the Korean peninsula?"
  13. Bush is fitting pesky treaties for shredder ELIZABETH SULLIVAN The Plain Dealer July 16, 2001 -- Defense analyst John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, a Virginia watchdog group, said this spotty record comes despite spending $75 billion over the last two decades, "half what we spent on the Apollo [moon-landing] project."
  14. POLITICS PUTS $100 MILLION SATELLITE ON ICE Melissa Harris THE ORLANDO SENTINEL July 15, 2001 "It's all the Supreme Court's fault," said John Pike, director of the GlobalSecurity.com policy-research organization. "If Gore would have had one more vote on the court, Triana would have been launched by now."
  15. US conducts missile tests over the Pacific Ocean CBS Evening News (6:30 PM ET) July 14, 2001 Mr. JOHN PIKE (GlobalSecurity.org): If this test succeeds, the administration will say they're on the right course. If it fails, they'll be able to say, 'This is why we need to spend more money.'
  16. Missile Test: A Hit or Miss for Bush Plan By PAUL RICHTER and PETER PAE Los Angeles Times Saturday, Jul. 14, 2001 -- John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.Org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan military and space policy think tank based in Alexandria, Va., said the outcome of the test is not likely to derail the program but could help shift public sentiment, which has leaned toward Bush's plan for a more robust national missile defense system.
  17. US says missile plan to collide with treaty By John Donnelly Boston Globe 7/13/2001 -- Wolfowitz said the administration is optimistic about reaching a deal with the Russians ''because the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, Russia is not our enemy, we are no longer locked in a posture of Cold War ideological antagonism.'' ''They have to say that,'' responded John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington defense policy group. ''What else are they going to say - that everyone on the planet knows we have taken leave of our senses?''
  18. Bush Speeds Missile Defense Plans By Vernon Loeb and Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post July 12, 2001 -- In the past, government lawyers and arms control advocates have offered differing interpretations of how much construction would be allowed under the treaty. "As soon as the construction site becomes recognizably a strategic ABM interceptor launcher, it would violate the treaty," John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a defense think tank, said yesterday.
  19. UN Reeling From Nastygrams By Jeffrey Benner Wired News July 10, 2001 -- With a regular flow of dignitaries and world leaders, security at the campus is a big job. "For the annual heads-of-state meeting, they have a heroic security operation," John Pike, an international security expert, said.
  20. Plan B: Missile Defense Backups; Alternate Contractors Could Be Hired Under 2003 Budget Greg Schneider The Washington Post July 07, 2001 -- Paying for a backup set of hardware might improve the odds of making the technology work but is a "luxury" made possible by the Bush administration's generous funding, said John Pike, who monitors military and space policy for the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank GlobalSecurity.org in Alexandria. "They've got to get rid of the money somehow," Pike said.
  21. Unmanned Plane Future of Aerial Espionage CNN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WEEK July 7, 2001 -- JOHN PIKE, GLOBALSECURITY.ORG: The advantages that you have with aircraft is that, unlike satellites, you can't predict when they're going to show up. And unlike satellites, they can remain in a given area for an extended period of time.
  22. Espionage Today ED WARNER Voice of America 07/06/01 -- The Cold War is over, but spying continues. That is the opinion of John Pike, the director of Global Security.Org, a defense and intelligence policy organization:
  23. Missile defense system: a Maginot line for 21st century? By Scott Canon The Kansas City Star July 5, 2001 -- "Once World War II started, certainly there were times when Germans shot down enough bombers where we decided to stay away from particular targets for a while," said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, which is skeptical of missile defenses. "It's also the case that bombers got through."
  24. ROCKET SCIENCE MICHAEL RAVNITZKY The National Law Journal July 2, 2001 -- According to military technology expert John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org, the U.S. Air Force recently studied the utility of lightweight laser-weapon-equipped aircraft.
  25. THE LIGHT BRIGADE DAVID H. FREEDMAN Technology Review July 1, 2001 -- Trucks and tanks are another matter altogether, says John Pike, director of Alexandria, VA-based defense-policy think tank Globalsecurity.org. "That's why bullets and shells are still popular--there's no way a laser is going to deposit more energy on a target than would have been created by an equivalent amount of chemical explosive."
  26. U.S. EYING NEW RUSSIAN SUB BY RICHARD SISK Daily News (New York) July 1, 2001 -- The Gepard marks "a really significant improvement" for the Russian Navy, but one sub hardly is a threat to the U.S., said John Pike, head of the GlobalSecurity.com think tank. He said that U.S. defense spending of $330 billion dwarfs that of Russia.