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Outer Space
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Collected articles (last updated April 2007)

Jeffrey Lewis, "ASATs and Crisis Instability," Arms Control Wonk, 15 April 2007.

Andrew Lichterman, "Next generation strategic weapons and the possibility of arms races to come," DisarmamentActivist.org, 7 April 2007.

Daryl G. Kimball, "Avoiding a Space Arms Race," Arms Control Today, April 2007.

Geoffrey Forden, "After China's Test: Time For a Limited Ban on Anti-Satellite Weapons," Arms Control Today, April 2007.

Ray Acheson, "Attack on the ASAT Attack," DisarmamentActivist.org, 6 March 2007.

Haninah Levine, "Iran's 'Space Missile?' Yawn, It's a SCUD," Danger Room, 26 February 2007.

CDI, "Technologies to Support Potential Space Weapons Receive Continued Funding," Press Release, Center for Defense Information, 22 February 2007.

Theresa Hitchens, Victoria Samson, and Sam Black, "Space Weapons Spending in the FY 2008 Defense Budget," Center for Defense Information, 21 February 2007.

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, "Chinese ASAT Likely Made Massive Debris," ArmsControlWonk.com, 18 January 2007.

David Webb, "On the Definition of a Space Weapon," The Praxis Center, Leeds Metropolitan University.

Detlav Wolter, "Common Security in Outer Space and International Law: A European Perspective," Collective Security in Space: European Perspectives," Space Policy Institute, George Washington University, January 2007.

Stephanie C. Lieggi, "Space Arms Race: China's ASAT Test a Wake-up Call," Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 24 January 2007.

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, "New National Space Policy, Also Silly," ArmsControlWonk.com, 18 October 2006.

Space Security 2006, Spacesecurity.org, 2006

Matthew Hoey, "Military space systems: the road ahead," The Space Review, 27 February 2006.

William D. Hartung et al, Tangled Web 2005: A Profile of the Missile Defense and Space Weapons Lobbies, World Policy Institute, 2005.

Detlev Wolter, "Common security in outer space and international law," UNIDIR, 2005. (Chapters, Preface, Forward)

Detlev Wolter, "Common Security in Outer Space and International Law," UNIDIR, 2005. (Flyer)

Hui Zhang, "Action/Reaction: U.S. Space Weaponization and China," Arms Control Today, December 2005.

Thomas Graham, Jr., "Space Weapons and the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War," Arms Control Today, December 2005.

William D. Hartung with Frida Berrigan, Michelle Ciarrocca, and Jonathan Wingo, "Tangled Web 2005: A Profile of the Missile Defense and Space Weapons Lobbies," Arms Trade Resource Center, 2005.

Michael Krepon (ed.), Space Security or Space Weapons?, Henry L. Stimson Center, 2005.

"U.S. Moves Closer to Putting Weapons in Space," News Alert, PAWS Canada, 3 November 2005.

Hui Zhang, “Act Now to Stop a Space Arms Race,” The Financial Times, 10 June 2005.

Hui Zhang, "The US Weaponization of Space: Chinese Perspectives," Presentation at NPRI Conference Full Spectrum Dominance: The Impending Weaponization of Space, Warrenton, Virginia, 16-17 May 2005.

Michael Katz-Hyman (ed.), Code of Conduct for Outer Space , The Henry L. Stimson Center, March 2005.

Laura Grego, "Comments on Context of Anticipated New National Space Policy, " Press Briefing, United Nations, 19 May 2005.

Michael Krepon and Michael Heller, "A Model Code of Conduct for Space Assurance," Disarmament Diplomacy, May/June 2004.

James Clay Moltz, “Space Security and Bush Administration Policy: Results of the First Term,” Center for Nonproliferation Studies, April 2004.

Michael Krepon, "Weapons in the Heavens: A Radical and Reckless Option," Arms Control Today, November 2004.

Ernie Regehr, "Space and Missile Defence: Sorting Fact from Controversy," Project Ploughshares, March 2004.

Pugwash Working Group 2, “Weaponisation of Space and Missile Defense,” 53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs: Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics, 17-21 July 2003.

Rebecca Johnson, “Securing Outer Space for the Future: Strategic Considerations for Pugwash,” 53rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs: Advancing Human Security: The Role of Technology and Politics, 17-21 July 2003.

Dr. Walter Dorn, "Preventing the weaponization of space," report on Joint Forum, Canadian Pugwash Group and Science For Peace, 22 March 2003.

Dr. Colleen Driscoll, Outer Space for the Benefit of All Humanity, Center for UN Reform Education, March 2003.

Sarah Estabrooks, "Preventing the weaponization of space: options for moving forward," Project Ploughshares, March 2003.

"Transforming The War Industry Into A World Cooperative Space Industry: A New Economic Stimulus Package & Security System via The Space Preservation Act and Companion Space Preservation Treaty," Institute for Cooperation in Space, January 2003.

David Wright and Laura Grego, "Anti-Satellite Capabilities of Planned US Missile Defence Systems," Disarmament Diplomacy, December 2002 - January 2003.

"Opposing weapons in space," The Ploughshares Monitor, volume 23, no. 3, Project Ploughshares, Autumn 2002.

Hui Zhang, "FMCT and PAROS: A Chinese Perspective," INESAP Bulletin No. 20, August 2002.

International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP) Information Bulletin No. 20 (August 2002) - lots of relevant articles!

Dr. Clay Moltz, “Future Space Security,” Center for Nonproliferation Studies, July 2002.

Ambassador Thomas Graham, "International Law and the Military Uses of Space," Disarmament Diplomacy, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No. 63, March - April 2002.

G. E. Mamedov, "Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space," Statement at conference "Space Without Weapons" in Moscow on 11 April 2001, International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation (INESAP), Bulletin Issue No. 18, September 2001.

Rebecca Johnson, "Multilateral Approaches to Preventing the Weaponisation of Space," Disarmament Diplomacy, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, Issue No. 56, April 2001.

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Disarmament Seminar, The Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space, WILPF, 10-11 March 1999.

Karl Grossman, The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat To Our Planet, Common Courage Press, August 1997.

Science for Peace's Working Group "Peace in Outer Space." Fact Sheets on Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence.