Reblogged from Ye Olde Soapbox:
Plugging U.S. Missile Defense Gaps
April 16, 2012
By Patrick Cronin, Matthew N. Giarra & Paul S. Giarra
It would be a mistake to assume that we dodged a bullet with the fiery end to North Korea’s Unha-3 missile launch at the Dongchang-ri facility one minute into its fight. In fact, this was a test flight, and while missile engineers always hope for fully successful flights, they also understand that there’s plenty to be learned from failures as well.

Reblogged this on nebraskaenergyobserver and commented:
Dan’s right, there is lots of good thinking here.