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"China's ASAT Capabilities: As a Potential Response to US Missile Defense and 'Space Control' Plans"

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"China's ASAT Capabilities: As a Potential Response to US Missile Defense and 'Space Control' Plans"

Journal Article, Ensuring America's Space Security: Report of the FAS Panel on Weapons in Space, Federation of American Scientists

October 2004

Author: Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security; Managing the Atom; Science, Technology, and Public Policy

 

"China is concerned about U.S. missile defense and "space control"plans, which would lead to weaponization of outer space and stimulate a costly and destabilizing arms race. China is further concerned that the US missile defense program, as currently advertised, would neutralize China's strategic nuclear deterrent...."

 

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Full text of this publication is available at:
http://www.fas.org/resource/10072004164453.pdf

For Academic Citation:

Zhang, Hui. "China's ASAT Capabilities: As a Potential Response to US Missile Defense and 'Space Control' Plans." Ensuring America's Space Security: Report of the FAS Panel on Weapons in Space Federation of American Scientists (October 2004).

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