SPACE SECURITY
March 2008
Russian and Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Plans in Space
Report
By Pavel Podvig and Hui Zhang, 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, Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative, New America Foundation
Jeffery Lewis examines patterns in Chinese defense investments, strategic force deployments, and arms control behavior to assess China's nuclear strategy.
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, 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, The Boston Globe
By William S. Marshall, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
"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, 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...."
Arms Control Today
December 2005
"Action/Reaction: U.S. Space Weaponization and China"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Arms Control Today, issue 10, volume 35
By Hui Zhang, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"Chinese officials have expressed a growing concern that U.S. space and missile defense plans will stimulate a costly and destabilizing arms race...."
June 10, 2005
"Act Now to Stop a Space Arms Race"
Op-Ed, The Financial Times
By Hui Zhang, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
"While the US views — and characterises — these weapons as defensive, to China and to many other countries the construction of such a system looks more like the development of the Death Star spaceship in the Star Wars film series...."
June 2005
Space Security 2004
Book
By Simon Collard-Wexler, Jessy Cowan-Sharp, Sarah Estabrooks, Amb. Thomas Graham Jr., Robert Lawson and William S. Marshall, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program
The Space Security Index (SSI) is a tool for policy-makers, space actors and the public which assesses the impact of developments related to space upon security security.
May 16-17, 2005
"The U.S. Weaponization of Space: Chinese Perspectives"
Presentation
By Hui Zhang, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Presentation at the Nuclear Policy Research Institute Conference:
Full Spectrum Dominance: The Impending Weaponization of Space,
Warrenton, Virginia, May 16–17, 2005.
December 2004
"Chinese Perspectives on the Prevention of Space Weaponization"
Journal Article, INESAP Bulletin, issue 24
By Hui Zhang, Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
This paper was written for the conference "The Challenge of Hiroshima. Alternatives to Nuclear Weapons, Missiles, Missile Defenses, and Space Weaponization in a Northeast Asian Context" organized by INESAP and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation on October 8-11, 2004, in Hiroshima, Japan.
