Space Security

Program Publications

• January 22, 2013 / By Michael Krepon
  Presidential Inbox 2013: Cooperate with China on Space
  

  From now through the January 2013 Inauguration, Stimson experts will offer their views on key international security challenges and pragmatic steps the Obama Administration can take to

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• March 23, 2012 / By Michael Krepon, Alan D. Romberg
  Krepon and Romberg on North Korea’s Planned Satellite Launch
  

  The "leap day" agreement between the DPRK and the Obama administration may not last more than one month if Pyongyang follows through with its announced plans to place a satellite in low

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• January 17, 2012 / By Michael Krepon
  Weak Arguments Against a Space Code of Conduct
  

  Major diplomatic accomplishments for space are as rare as triple crown winners in baseball. The last year both occurred was in 1967, when the Outer Space Treaty was finalized and Carl

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• November 07, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  How Not to Test in Space
  

  Almost fifty years ago, the United States carried out its highest yield atmospheric nuclear test, when a Thor missile was launched from Johnston Island carrying a Mark-49 warhead. The

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• September 12, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Waiting for the Code of Conduct
  

  It’s never a good sign when the United States votes in lonely isolation at the United Nations. This can only mean one of three things: that the rest of the world is spineless, or that

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• April 05, 2011
  Chairman’s Forum: Elon Musk
  

  It's a whole new world to think about the privatization of space, but Elon Musk has done just that.  Musk took the stage at Stimson yesterday, shortly after announcing the launch date

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• January 20, 2011 / By Michael Krepon
  Space Norms Matrix
  

  The Stimson Center, with the help of Nancy Gallagher at the University of Maryland, Victoria Samson and Brian Weedon at the Secure World Foundation, Theresa Hitchens at UNIDIR, and Laura

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• December 10, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  A Code of Conduct for Responsible Space-Faring Nations
  

  Since 2002, the Stimson Center's Space Security Project has worked to increase public awareness of the dangerous consequences of flight testing and deploying space weapons, while

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• December 01, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  Verifying Nuclear Arms Reduction
  

  Many of New START's harshest critics argue that the Treaty's monitoring provisions are deficient. Shelving the Treaty will not improve verification.  On the contrary, doing so will deal

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• December 01, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  A Code of Conduct for Responsible Space-Faring Nations
  

  Since 2002, the Stimson Center’s Space Security Project has worked to increase public awareness of the dangerous consequences of flight testing and deploying space weapons, while

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• July 07, 2010 / By Michael Krepon
  The Obama Administration’s National Space Policy
  

  After much delay, the Obama administration unveiled the unclassified version of its National Space Policy on June 28th. The crafting of specific diplomatic initiatives will follow.

  The

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• August 21, 2009 / By Michael Krepon
  Getting to Work on Fissile Material Production and Space Security
  

  The 65-nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva is tied up in knots because it operates by consensus and because it proceeds as if the Cold War never ended.  Its last substantive

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• May 06, 2009 / By Brian Finlay, Elizabeth Turpen, Barry Blechman, Michael Krepon
  Presidential Inbox 2009: The First 100 Days
  

  The first 100 days of any administration are filled with tough choices and breaks from past policies. This administration is no different. In the lead-up to the election, Stimson experts

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• December 10, 2008 / By Michael Krepon
  Bellagio Space Security Workshop Summary
  

  The Stimson Center’s Space Security Project, with grant support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ploughshares Fund, and the New-Land Foundation, convened a three-day workshop at the

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• October 06, 2008 / By Michael Krepon
  Space: A Code of Conduct
  

  Space: A Code of Conduct

  The Challenge

  Satellites are indispensable and vulnerable. Satellites perform essential military functions. They provide early warning of missile launches and

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• September 28, 2008
  EU Code of Conduct
  

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• July 22, 2008 / By Sam Black
  No Harmful Interference with Space Objects: The Key to Confidence-Building
  

  The Stimson Center’s Space Security Program has released Stimson Report #69: “No Harmful Interference with Space Objects: The Key to Confidence Building.” This report, authored by

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• October 24, 2007 / By Michael Krepon
  Model Code of Conduct for Space-Faring Nations
  

   Central Objective of this Code of Conduct

  To preserve and advance the peaceful exploration and use of outer space.

  Preamble

  We the undersigned;   Recognizing the common interest of all

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• March 05, 2007 / By Michael Krepon
  Will the Bush Administration Endorse a Space Code of Conduct?
  

  Space News
  March 5, 2007

  US President George W. Bush is not interested in winning a popularity contest on multilateral agreements dealing with space. To the contrary, the most recent

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• April 02, 2003 / By Michael Krepon
  Space Assurance or Space Dominance? The Case Against Weaponizing Space
  

  While space has long been utilized to assist military operations, it has not been weaponized. A new report by the Stimson Center—Space Assurance or Space Dominance? The Case Against

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• December 22, 2002 / By Michael Krepon
  Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future
  

  In this Stimson Center Book, Michael Krepon calls on the United States to replace the Cold War era strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction with a balanced approach combining cooperative

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