Space and Security

Event Ideas

The following is a list of resources that may be used for chapter meetings and events. Ideas range from book clubs to movie nights and from roundtable discussions to large events.

Movies

• Arming the Heavens: The Push for Weapons in Space
  

• Red Stuff: The True Story of the Russian Race for Space
  

• Space Cowboys
  

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  

• War in Space
  

• Star Wars
  
  

Suggested Speakers

• Peter R. Huessy
  President
  GeoStrategic Analysis;
  Senior Defense Associate
  National Defense University Foundation
  

• Victoria Samson
  Research Analyst
  Center for Defense Information
  

• Karl Mueller
  Associate Political Scientist
  RAND Corporation
  

• Jessy Cowan-Sharp
  Research Assistant
  Center for Defense Information
  

• James Clay Moltz
  Research Professor and Associate Director
  Center for Nonproliferation Studies
  Monterey Institute of International Studies
  

• Bruce M. Deblois
  Adjunct Senior Fellow
  Council on Foreign Relations
  

• Theresa Hitchens
  Vice President
  Center for Defense Information
  

• George Bunn
  Consulting Professor
  Center for International Security and Cooperation
  

• Larry M. Wortzel
  Vice President
  Foreign Policy and Defense Studies
  The Heritage Foundation
  

• Bruce Gagnon
  Coordinator
  Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
  

• Michael Krepon
  Founding President
  The Henry L. Stimson Center
  

• Michael D. Heller
  Research Assistant, Weaponization of Space Project
  The Henry L. Stimson Center
  

• Stephen A. Chmbone
  Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
  

• John E. Pike
  Director
  Global Security.Org
  

• Philip E. Coyle
  Senior Advisor
  Center for Defense Information
  

Websites

• Air War College
  

• Arms Control Association
  

• Council on Foreign Relation
  

• China National Space Administration
  

• Defense Science and Technology Laboratory
  

• European Space Agency
  

• Global Security Org
  

• Gyry.org
  

• High Frontier
  

• Indian Space Research Organization
  

• Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
  

• Japanese Defense Research Center
  

• John F. Kennedy Space Center
  

• Natural Defense Resources Council
  

• NASA
  

• National Space and Satellite Alliance
  

• Nuclear Policy Research Institute
  

• Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
  

• Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies
  

• Russian Aviation and Space Agency
  

• Russian Space Science Internet Web Server
  

• The Henry L. Stimson Center
  

• United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
  

• United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
  

• US Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) US Department of Defense
  

• US Department of State
  

• US Strategic Command
  

Books and Publications

• Beyond the Paths of Heaven: The Emergence of Space Power Thought by Bruce DeBlois
  

• Space Weapons Earth Wars by Bob Preston, Dana J. Johnson, Sean Edwards, Michael Miller, Calvin Shipbaugh
  

• Space Assurance or Space Dominance? The Case Against Weaponizing Space by Michael Krepon with Christopher Clary
  

• The War off the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  

• High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard K. O'Neil, Freeman J. Dyson
  

• A Renewed Spirit of Discovery by President George W. Bush, Jan, 04
  

• NASA FY 2005 Budget
  
  

Articles

• "China Waging War on Space-Based Weapons" by Dr. Larry M. Wortzel (The Heritage Foundation, Aug 11, 03)
  

• "China and the Battlefield in Space" by Dr. Larry M. Wortzel (The Heritage Foundation, Oct15, 2003)
  

• "Chinese Military Update" (Russian Aviation and Space Agency, Jul, 03)
  

• "North Korea's Nuclear Program: Analyzing 'Confessional Diplomacy'" by Noriyuki Katagiri (Center for Defense Information, Oct 28, 02)
  

• "Commercial Imagery: Benefits and Risks" by Theresa Hitchens (Center for Defense
  Information, Feb 24, 04)
  

• "USAF Transformation Flight Plan Highlights Space Weapons" by Theresa Hitchens (Center for Defense Information, Feb 19, 04)
  

• "China Crosses Threshold of Manned Spaceflight" by Victoria Samson (Center for Defense Information, Oct 15, 03)
  

• "U.S. Weaponization of Space: Implications for International Security" by Theresa Hitchens (Center for Defense Information, Oct 2, 03)
  

• "Son Of Star Wars: Another Arms Race?" by Evan Woodward (estarwars.net )
  

• "Experimental Satellite System (XSS)" (Global Security.org)
  

• "Russia's Approaches to Strengthening the International Legal Regime Prohibiting the Weaponization of Outer Space and Efforts for Building an International Coalition in This Sphere" by Andrey Vinnik (Department for Disarmament Affairs and Security Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia, May 22- 24, 03)
  

• "Arms Race in Space? U.S. Air Force Quietly Focuses on Space Control" by Theresa Hitchens, Jeffrey Lewis (Center for Defense Information, Sep 1, 03)
  

• "The threat in China's Space Race" by Li Thian-hok (Taipei Times, Nov 01, 03)
  

• "Space ‘Increasingly Important,' SPACECOM Chief Says" by Gerry J. Gilmore (American Forces Press Service, Apr 5, 01)
  

• "Protesters fear nuclear arms in space" by Robin McKie (The Guardian, Oct 6, 03)