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Future Security in Space: Commercial, Military, and Arms Control Trade-Offs

James Clay Moltz, ed.

Occasional Paper #10 continues a collaboration between the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies at the University of Southampton. This publication is a series of papers identifying areas of common ground in the field of future space activity.

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Contents

Introduction

• Future Choices in Space
  by James Clay Moltz

Defenses in Space: Background Issues

• Defenses in Space: Treaty Issues
  by Jonathan Dean
• U.S. Commercial Space Programs: Future Priorities and Implications for National Security
  by Charles V. Peña
• Military Approaches to Space Vulnerability: Seven Questions
  by Robert McDougall and Phillip J. Baines
• Debris and Future Space Activities
  by Joel R. Primack

Weighing Alternative Approaches to Space Security

• Putting Military Uses of Space in Context
  by Steven Lambakis
• Space Weapons: More Security or Less?
  by Theresa Hitchens
• Military Space Cooperation: Opportunities and Challenges
  by Peter L. Hays
• Enhancing Global Security through Improved Space Management: A Russian Perspective
  by Vitaly A. Lukiantsev
• Treaties as an Approach to Reducing Space Vulnerabilities
  by Cheng Jingye
• A U.S. Perspective on Space
  by Eric M. Javits

How to Move Forward?

• Government-Led Discussions regarding Space Weapons and Avenues for Progress
  by Vladimir Petrovsky
• Commercial-Led Options
  by Alain Dupas
• NGO Approaches and Initiatives for Addressing Space Security
  by Rebecca Johnson