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Author : Frank Barnaby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Anti-satellite weapons
ISBN : UOM:39015009393276
Describes the reality of today's military space technology, growing military role of Soviet and U.S. space shuttles, spy satellites and anti-satellite weapons and manned space stations.
Author : Karl Grossman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1583220445
Weapons in Space examines how the United States is forcing forward—in violation of international treaties—to militarize space. Based on excerpts from U.S. government documents, award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman outlines the U.S. military's space doctrine, its similarity with the original Stars Wars scheme of Ronald Reagan and Edward Teller, and the space-based lasers, hypervelocity guns, and particle beams it plans to deploy in its mission to "dominate" earth. Grossman shows the intimate link between the militarization and the nuclearization of space, and follows the flow of billions of U.S. tax dollars to the corporations that research and develop weapons for space. His book explains the Outer Space Treaty and gives a history of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear power in Space: what it is doing, what it plans to do—and what the reader can do to challenge U.S. plans to turn the heavens into a war zone.
Author : Robert Preston,Dana J. Johnson,Sean J. A. Edwards,Michael D. Miller,Calvin Shipbaugh
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780833032522
This overview aims to inform the public discussion of space-based weapons by examining their characteristics, potential attributes, limitations, legality, and utility. The authors do not argue for or against space weapons, nor do they estimate the potential costs and performance of specific programs, but instead sort through the realities and myths surrounding space weapons in order to ensure that debates and discussions are based on fact.
Author : E. P. Velikhov,R. Z. Sagdeev,Andreĭ Afanasʹevich Kokoshin
Publisher : Elsevier Science & Technology
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Astronautics, Military
ISBN : UOM:39015013256683
Author : Paul B. Stares
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000280753
This book, first published in 1985, analyses the factors that have shaped the militarization of space. By examining in great detail the determinants of U.S. policy, it explains why for over 25 years space did not become the scene of an arms race, and why this began to change in the late 1970s. Both superpowers did, however, develop a limited anti-satellite capability in the 1960s, and these programmes are also discussed.
Author : Sally Ride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : UIUC:30112012287717
Author : John W. Macvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Outer space
ISBN : 0812881435
Author : Steven Eisler
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015020636794
Author : Unidir United Nations Institute For Disarmament Research
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000263152
This book, first published in 1991, is the cumulative result of a long period of research by qualified experts in an attempt to analyse the legal and scientific problems of arriving at definitions in the task of preventing an arms race in outer space. Problems of definition confront the negotiator at the very outset of any discussion on preventing a space arms race – this book sets out to remove these problems by examining the possible definitions.
Author : Bruce W. MacDonald
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780876094068
MacDonald recommends options and policies that will promote options and policies that will promote American security interests in space. He argues that the U.S. needs to take priority defensive military space measures to offset potential Chinese anti-satellite and related capabilities.
Author : Bhupendra Jasani
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0198291027
The efforts of the United States to develop defences against ballistic missiles (the Strategic Defense Initiative) is one of the most hotly debated topics of our time. This authoritative book contributes to the debate by presenting th searching and wide-ranging views of twenty-six international experts on the technical, legal, political, and military aspects of space weapons. They address such questions as: What are the technological promises and problems of strategic defence? What effects will SDI have on the arms race or on deterring nuclear war? How do China, India, and Japan perceive SDI? What can be done to guard international stability? These papers, which express every range of opinion on SDI, from an unqualified approval to total scepticism, are prefaced by an overview by the editor of the volume.
Author : Rip Bulkeley,Graham Spinardi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0389206415
A clear and lively account of the space-weapons issue. The authors examine all aspects of the Strategic Defense Initiative proposal its historical background, current and forthcoming technologies, and international political implications. The book is divided into three main sections. The first part describes the historical development of space-weapons technology from the 1920s to the present day. The second part provides a detailed technical assessment of the anti-missile systems being pursued as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative. It also considers the countermeasures to SDI that are currently in existence or are being developed by the United States and the Soviet Union. The third part examines the international political and strategic implications of SDI and their probable consequences for arms-control policies.
Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015011047837
Author : Aaron Bateman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262547369
A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond. In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan shocked the world when he established the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively known as “Star Wars,” a space-based missile defense program that aimed to protect the US from nuclear attack. In Weapons in Space, Aaron Bateman draws from recently declassified American, European, and Soviet documents to give an insightful account of SDI, situating it within a new phase in the militarization of space after the superpower détente fell apart in the 1970s. In doing so, Bateman reveals the largely secret role of military space technologies in late–Cold War US defense strategy and foreign relations. In contrast to existing narratives, Weapons in Space shows how tension over the role of military space technologies in American statecraft was a central source of SDI’s controversy, even more so than questions of technical feasibility. By detailing the participation of Western European countries in SDI research and development, Bateman reframes space militarization in the 1970s and 1980s as an international phenomenon. He further reveals that even though SDI did not come to fruition, it obstructed diplomatic efforts to create new arms control limits in space. Consequently, Weapons in Space carries the legacy of SDI into the post–Cold War era and shows how this controversial program continues to shape the global discourse about instability in space—and the growing anxieties about a twenty-first-century space arms race.
Author : Bhupendra Jasani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000263114
This book, first published in 1982, analyses the prospects of the Cold War superpowers arms race spilling into outer space. A SIPRI-organized symposium in 1981 discussed the consequences of the militarization of outer space, as well as further arms control and disarmament measures. This book presents the findings of 20 eminent scientists, lawyers and diplomats from 12 different countries.
