Interview Spotlight: Frank Gaffney

Interview Spotlight: Frank Gaffney

As President of The Center for Security Policy, Frank Gaffney has led the Washington, D.C. non-partisan educational corporation to a nationally and internationally respected source of timely, informed and penetrating analysis of foreign and security matters.

Mr. Gaffney is the host of “Secure Freedom Radio”, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard weeknights throughout the country. He is an associate author of highly acclaimed “Shariah: The Threat to America” and the publisher of over a dozen other books and monographs from the Center for Security Policy Press. Gaffney contributes to the media, writing opinion pieces on topics such as politics, terrorism, and international affairs.

In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving U.S.-USSR relations, nuclear forces, arms control, missile defense policy and U.S.-European defense ties. During this time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO’s senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.

From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.

Can Ripples on the Sun help Predict Solar Flares?

Can Ripples on the Sun help Predict Solar Flares?

An X-class solar flare (X9.3) emitted on September 6, 2017, and captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light. (Image courtesy of NASA/GSFC/SDO) Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged particles, sometimes toward Earth, where they disrupt communications and endanger satellites and astronauts.

“If sunquakes can be generated spontaneously in the sun, this might lead us to a forecasting tool, if the transient can come from magnetic flux that has yet to break the sun’s surface, we could then anticipate the inevitable subsequent emergence of that magnetic flux. We may even forecast some details about how large an active region is about to appear and what type — even, possibly, what kinds of flares — it might produce. This is a long shot, but well worth looking into.”

Any breakthrough technology that might provide early warning of a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) would be a welcome addition for the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

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Source: UC Berkeley Can ripples on the sun help predict solar flares?

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