- Future Security in Space: Commercial, Military, and Arms Control Trade-Offs
(PDF)
Report from the Center of Nonproliferation Studies.
cns.miis.edu/pubs/opapers/op10/op10.pdf
- Militarization of Space--Spurring or Deterring Future Conflict?
Argues that although the militarization of space is inevitable, the U.S. goal should be to develop and employ those weapons which enhance deterrence.
www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/report/1989/DCA.htm
- Space Security
Reports and analysis of the space weaponization debate from the Center for Defense Information.
www.cdi.org/program/index.cfm?programid=68
- New Dimensions of Security: Militarization of Space
Provides a definition of space militarization and outlines proposed advanced military defense system involving the use of space.
www.angelfire.com/goth/dark-angel/index.html
- Third World Traveler: Militarization of Space Page
Collection of articles warning against the U.S. efforts to weaponize and dominate space.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Militarization_Space/Militarization_Space.html
- Space Weapons Earth Wars
RAND report facilitating a broader public discussion by describing the attributes of space weapons, classifying and comparing them, and explaining how each might be used.
www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1209
- Totem and Taboo: Depolarizing the Space Weaponization Debate
(PDF)
Suggests a roadmap to the debate that distinguishes six different positions regarding the question of whether and when the U.S. should build space weapons.
www.gwu.edu/~spi/spaceforum/TotemandTabooGWUpaperRevised[1].pdf
- Space Sanctuary: A Viable National Strategy
Summarizes several key points of the argument against the weaponization of space.
cndyorks.gn.apc.org/yspace/articles/spacesanctuary.htm
- Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS)
Works towards protecting the sanctity of outer space for all humankind by educating the world on the urgency to ban space-based weapons and to continue world cooperation in space.
www.peaceinspace.com
- Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Working against the establishment of an arms race in space.
www.space4peace.org
- Weaponization of Space Project
Henry L. Stimson Center project exploring the linkages between the weaponization of space and broader areas of concern, such as arms control, commerce, cooperative threat reduction, and technology policy.
www.stimson.org/wos/?SN=WS20020110219
- U.S. Department of Defense Space Technology Guide
Surveys the range of national security space-related technology activities needed or under way across the U.S. space community.
fas.org/spp/military/stg.htm
- Question of Intent, A: Missile Defense and the Weaponization of Space
Looks at how the dual use capability of both the SBL and kinetic kill vehicles makes them inherently threatening to the space assets and national security of other countries.
www.basicint.org/pubs/Notes/2002NMDspace.htm
- Weaponization of Space: It Doesn't Happen in a Vacuum
Article tracking the space weaponization argument over a thirty year period, from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj00/spr00/belote.htm
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