| Author | : United States. USAF Scientific Advisory Board |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Air power |
| ISBN | : |
New World Vistas
| Author | : United States. USAF Scientific Advisory Board |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Air power |
| ISBN | : 0788133853 |
A forecast of the role and technological needs of the U.S. Air Force in the post-Cold War era.
The Oxford Handbook of Space Security
| Author | : Saadia M. Pekkanen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 905 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0197582672 |
The Oxford Handbook of Space Security focuses on the interaction between space technology and international and national security processes. Saadia M. Pekkanen and P.J. Blount have gathered a group of key scholars who bring a range of analytical and theoretical perspectives to take an analytically-eclectic approach to assessing space security from an international relations (IR) theory perspective. Bringing together scholarship from a group of leading experts, this volume explains how these contemporary changes will affect future security in, from, and through space.
Militarizing Outer Space
| Author | : Alexander C.T. Geppert |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2020-12-02 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1349958514 |
Militarizing Outer Space explores the dystopian and destructive dimensions of the Space Age and challenges conventional narratives of a bipolar Cold War rivalry. Concentrating on weapons, warfare and violence, this provocative volume examines real and imagined endeavors of arming the skies and conquering the heavens. The third and final volume in the groundbreaking European Astroculture trilogy, Militarizing Outer Space zooms in on the interplay between security, technopolitics and knowledge from the 1920s through the 1980s. Often hailed as the site of heavenly utopias and otherworldly salvation, outer space transformed from a promised sanctuary to a present threat, where the battles of the future were to be waged. Astroculture proved instrumental in fathoming forms and functions of warfare’s futures past, both on earth and in space. The allure of dominating outer space, the book shows, was neither limited to the early twenty-first century nor to current American space force rhetorics.
Securing Outer Space
| Author | : Natalie Bormann |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2009-01-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134044844 |
This edited volume analyses a number of controversial policies and strategies relating to Space activities, and to place these in a broader theoretical perspective. The book reveals the relationship between activities in Outer Space and terrestrial international relations.
Weapons Satellites
| Author | : Philip Wolny |
| Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2002-12-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780823938551 |
Examines the development of weapons satellites which are not yet in use but which, when deployed, can use laser beams to attack large targets, disrupt the weather, or eliminate nuclear missiles in flight.
Limiting Outer Space
| Author | : Alexander C.T. Geppert |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2018-04-18 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1137369167 |
Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the moon landings, disillusionment set in. Outer space, no longer considered the inevitable destination of human expansion, lost much of its popular appeal, cultural significance and political urgency. With the rapid waning of the worldwide Apollo frenzy, the optimism of the Space Age gave way to an era of space fatigue and planetized limits. Bringing together the history of European astroculture and American-Soviet spaceflight with scholarship on the 1970s, this cutting-edge volume examines the reconfiguration of space imaginaries from a multiplicity of disciplinary perspectives. Rather than invoking oft-repeated narratives of Cold War rivalry and an escalating Space Race, Limiting Outer Space breaks new ground by exploring a hitherto underrated and understudied decade, the Post-Apollo period.
The United States Space Force and the Future of American Space Policy
| Author | : Jeremy Grunert |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2022-10-17 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9004524061 |
Since 1957, U.S. space policy has grappled with the question: should the space domain be governed by developing international law, or openly weaponized for national security? Has the creation of the Space Force settled this tension once and for all?
Space and Security
| Author | : Peter L. Hays |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2011-03-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
This thorough examination of the roots and motivations for U.S. national security space policy provides an essential foundation for considering current space security issues. During the Cold War era, space was an important arena for the clashing superpowers, yet the United States government chose not to station weapons there. Today, new space security dynamics are evolving that reflect the growing global focus upon the broad potential contributions of space capabilities to global prosperity and security. Space and Security: A Reference Handbook examines how the United States has developed and implemented policies designed to use space capabilities to enhance national security, providing a clear and complete evaluation of the origins and motivations for U.S. national security space policies and activities. The author explains the Eisenhower Administration's quest to develop high-technology intelligence collection platforms to open up the closed Soviet state, and why it focused on developing a legal regime to legitimize satellite overflight for the purposes of gathering intelligence.
