Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Missile and Space Activities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Seize the High Ground
Author: James A. WalkerPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.
Investigation of Governmental Organization for Space Activities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space SciencesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Space Activities Summary
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Artificial satellites
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Space Power Interests
Author: Peter HayesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000312836
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
In this unique volume, an international cast of leading scholars from several disciplines offers a comprehensive assessment of the current status of space-based weaponry. Regional and technical experts offer their analysis of the major powers' special interests in space and also examine the broader issues of ICBM proliferation, testing, monitoring, and verification as well as possible opportunities for cooperation between states with a stake in space power.
Missiles and Space Activities
Author: Space Weapons and U.S. Strategy
Author: Paul B. StaresPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000280756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
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.
United States Aeronautics and Space Activities
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Missile Development and Space Sciences
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and AstronauticsPublisher:
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Dark Skies
Author: Daniel DeudneyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019090335X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our many looming planetary catastrophes (from extreme climate change to runaway artificial superintelligence), looking beyond the earth for solutions might seem like a sound strategy for humanity. And indeed, bolstered by a global network of fervent space advocates-and seemingly rendered plausible, even inevitable, by oceans of science fiction and the wizardly of modern cinema-space beckons as a fully hopeful path for human survival and flourishing, a positive future in increasingly dark times. But despite even basic questions of feasibility, will these many space ventures really have desirable effects, as their advocates insist? In the first book to critically assess the major consequences of space activities from their origins in the 1940s to the present and beyond, Daniel Deudney argues in Dark Skies that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war, a fact conveniently obscured by the failure of recognize that nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are inherently space weapons. The most important practical finding of Space Age science, also rarely emphasized, is the discovery that we live on Oasis Earth, tiny and fragile, and teeming with astounding life, but surrounded by an utterly desolate and inhospitable wilderness stretching at least many trillions of miles in all directions. As he stresses, our focus must be on Earth and nowhere else. Looking to the future, Deudney provides compelling reasons why space colonization will produce new threats to human survival and not alleviate the existing ones. That is why, he argues, we should fully relinquish the quest. Mind-bending and profound, Dark Skies challenges virtually all received wisdom about the final frontier.