Editing Frank Gaffney (section)

====Fax wars====
In the 1990s, Gaffney became known in Washington, D.C., for "fax wars" he waged, whereby his "small but loyal following" would be encouraged to inundate the offices of members of Congress with faxes.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hersman|first1=Rebecca|title=Friends and Foes: How Congress and the President Really Make Foreign Policy|date=2010|publisher=[[Brookings Institution]]|isbn=978-0815798965|pages=88–89}}</ref>

In 1995, Gaffney charged that [[US Secretary of Energy]] [[Hazel R. O'Leary]] was intentionally undermining US nuclear readiness; an analysis of Gaffney's charges against O'Leary published by [[William Arkin]] observed that Gaffney "specializes in intensely personal attacks" and his Center for Security Policy's liberal use of [[fax]]es to attack its opponents had made it the "[[Domino's Pizza]] of the policy business".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]|date=March 1995|volume=51|issue=2|page=80|doi=10.1080/00963402.1995.11658058|last1=Arkin|first1=William M.|title=A tale of two Franks |bibcode=1995BuAtS..51b..80A }}</ref>

Later, in a 1997 column for ''The Washington Times'', Gaffney alleged a [[seismic]] incident in Russia was a nuclear detonation at that nation's [[Novaya Zemlya]] test site, indicating Russia was violating the [[Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty]] (CTB).<ref name="bas">{{cite news|last1=Isaacs|first1=John|title=Spinning to the Right|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgwAAAAAMBAJ|access-date=July 22, 2016|work=[[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]|date=November 1997}}</ref>  Subsequent scientific analysis of Novaya Zemlya confirmed the event was a routine [[earthquake]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wallace|first1=Terry|title=False Accusations, Undetected Tests and Implications for the CTB Treaty|url=http://www.armscontrol.org/print/357|access-date=July 22, 2016|work=[[Arms Control Association]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523100845/https://www.armscontrol.org/print/357|archive-date=May 23, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Reporting on the allegation, the ''[[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]]'' observed that, following its publication, "fax machines around Washington, D.C., and across the country poured out pages detailing Russian duplicity. They came from Frank Gaffney", going on to note that during the first four months of 1997, Gaffney had "issued more than 25 screeds" against the CTB.<ref name="bas" />