SPACE SECURITY
Spring 2012
Paul Doty's Legacy Lives on Through Influential Journal
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
As soon as Paul Doty launched what is now Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in 1974, he began planning a scholarly journal on international security. He shrugged off colleagues’ concerns that there would be little market for such a journal.Thirty-six years after the first issue appeared in the summer of 1976, the Belfer Center’s quarterly International Security consistently ranks No. 1 or No. 2 out of over 70 international affairs journals surveyed by Thomson Reuters each year.
October 6, 2011
Rosenbach Tapped for Pentagon Cyber Policy Role
News
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
CAMBRIDGE, MA. - Eric Rosenbach, a veteran Army intelligence officer who served as executive director for research in the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs from 2007 to 2010, has been appointed deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the appointment on Tuesday, Oct. 4, in Washington. Rosenbach left the Kennedy School in 2010 to become managing director of the Markle Foundation, handling national security issues, and moved earlier this year to a senior role at Good Harbor Consulting, a leading consulting firm on cyber-security and related issues. He remained a faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center and an adjunct lecturer at the school, teaching a course on counterterrorism policy and national security law.
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April 14, 2011
"Academic Stovepipes Undermine U.S. Security"
Op-Ed, World Politics Review
By Joan Johnson-Freese and Thomas M. Nichols, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2008–2011
"Missile defense represents the most severe collision of space, nuclear weapons and politics. Accustomed to technological miracles, Americans assume that technical problems can always be fixed with enough money. Engineers are not asked if missile defense is a viable solution to the horrific threat of nuclear warheads carried on missiles, and political analysts do not care about the difficulties involved in developing hardware. In the end, this disconnect could produce a situation where a U.S. president is asked to rely on a system that technical experts cannot assure him will work but that political advisers insist must be brandished."
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Forthcoming Summer 2010
"Space, Stability and Nuclear Strategy: Rethinking Missile Defense"
Journal Article, China Security, issue 2, volume 6
By Joan Johnson-Freese and Thomas M. Nichols, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2008–2011
"...[T]he United States has spent several tens of billions of dollars on missile defense research-and yet China, Iran, North Korea and possibly others have continued to pursue increasingly effective long-range ballistic capabilities. If missile defenses are a deterrent, why do US competitors-to say nothing of outright enemies-seem undeterred?"
March 2008
Russian and Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space
Report
By Pavel Podvig and Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences called upon Pavel Podvig and Hui Zhang to consider what consequences would develop if the United States continues to pursue the weaponization of space and how China and Russia would respond, and what would be the broader implications for international security.
March 2007
The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China's Search for Security in the Nuclear Age
Book
By Jeffrey G. Lewis, Former Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Jeffery Lewis examines patterns in Chinese defense investments, strategic force deployments, and arms control behavior to assess China's nuclear strategy.
Summer 2006
"Micro-satellites: Charting a New Course to Space Security"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By William S. Marshall, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2004-2007
The United States faces a genuine security problem in space: satellites are easy to negate for most of its adversaries. They are also absolutely crucial to U.S. security.
July 10, 2006
Space Security 2006
Book
By Simon Collard-Wexler, Amb. Thomas Graham Jr., Wade Huntley, Ram Jakhu, William S. Marshall, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2004-2007, John Siebert and Sarah Estabrooks
"The only resource of its kind, Space Security 2006 provides a comprehensive assessment of the state of space security based on analysis of past trends and 2005 developments...."
July 5, 2006
"Weapons in Outer Space"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By William S. Marshall, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2004-2007
"TENSIONS IN the United Nations over space-based weapons ran to new heights recently when the United States delivered a hard-line statement on its right to develop such weapons...."
Spring 2006
"Space Weaponization and Space Security: A Chinese Perspective"
Journal Article, China Security, issue 1, volume 2
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"...China is worried about how U.S. space weaponization plans might affect Chinese national security, international security, and protection of the space environment...."
