Missile defence is go
The Pentagon decided last week to press ahead with its controversial missile defence system despite the misgivings of the US General Accounting Office. The GAO’s report says only half of last year’s tests on the system succeeded, and that the ground-based interceptor missile has not been tried at all under realistic conditions. Nonetheless, the system will be declared operational at the end of September, just weeks before the presidential election.
No vote for e-voting
Two more votes of no confidence in e-voting were issued this week. On 30 April California banned one type of touch-screen voting…
