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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@xxxxxxx
voice: (202) 454-4691