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| Improving our Vision II: Space Situational Awareness Conference |
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December 3, 2007 |
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| Co-sponsored by the World Security Institute’s Center for Defense Information, the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense, and the Secure World Foundation, “Improving Our Vision II – Building Transparency and Cooperation,” held Oct. 25-26, 2007 at Inmarsat headquarters in London, was designed to bring a broad mix of stakeholders together to discuss opportunities, challenges, and new ideas for transatlantic cooperation to improve space situational awareness (SSA). |
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| China Security Winter 2007 Issue Now Available |
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February 27, 2007 |
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| Deterrence Revisited: Outer Space • U.S.-Sino Relations in Space: From “War of Words” to Cold War in Space? • China’s ASAT Test: Strategic Response • Nuclear Challenges and China’s Choices • U.S. Nuclear Primacy and the Future of the Chinese Deterrent • Crisis Management in China |
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| Technologies to Support Potential Space Weapons Receive Continued Funding |
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February 22, 2007 |
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| The Pentagon's fiscal year 2008 budget request funds slightly more than $1 billion in programs that could provide anti-satellite and space-based weapons capabilities, according to a new analysis by the Center for Defense Information (CDI) in cooperation with the Secure World Foundation. Get the report here. |
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| Now Available: The Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors? |
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November 17, 2006 |
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| Many people believe that space weapons are the new arms race. Stephen Sotor and Trace Gaynor, two 13 year olds from Chicago, learned about space weapons when doing research on their film, Genie in a Bottle Unleashed, about the history of the atomic bomb. For their new 15-minute short documentary about space weapons -- The Final Frontier: Explorers or Warriors? -- Stephen and Trace interviewed Sen. John Glenn, CDI Director Theresa Hitchens and Dr. Everett Carl Dolman of the U.S. Air Force’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, among others. |
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| EVENT: Space Weaponization - The Final Frontier |
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September 28, 2006 |
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| On Thursday, Sept. 28, CDI Director Theresa Hitchens will host a presentation featuring a new short documentary on space weaponization produced by award-winning teenage producers Trace Gaynor and Stephen Sotor.
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| China Security Journal Released by World Security Institute |
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March 21, 2006 |
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| The second issue of the World Security Institute’s China Security journal has been released today. Produced by the World Security Institute’s China Program, China Security is a unique policy journal featuring Chinese scholars who provide their perspective on vital traditional and non-traditional security issues that impact China’s strategic development and its relations with the United States. |
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| Press Release: Space Weapons Could Emerge from Pentagon Budget |
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March 7, 2006 |
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| The Pentagon's Fiscal Year 2007 (FY07) budget request funds nearly a billion dollars in programs that could provide dual-use space weapons capabilities according to a new joint-analysis by the World Security Institute’s Center for Defense Information (CDI) and the Henry L. Stimson Center. |
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| Future Security in Space: Charting a Cooperative Course |
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November 15, 2004 |
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| In this new monograph, CDI Vice President Theresa Hitchens details a comprehensive approach to the near- and mid-term problems facing users of outer space. The booklet describes the current threats to secure operations in space – degradation of the space environment, problems and misunderstandings caused by lack of transparency, and the lack of accepted rules of behavior – and recommends actions to mitigate those threats. |
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| Stimson Center Calls for Space Assurance, Not Space Weapons--Proposes Code of Conduct to Help Prevent Dangerous Military Activities in Space |
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May 21, 2004 |
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| On Thursday, May 20th, Theresa Hitchens, CDI Vice President and director of the CDI Space Security Project, participated in a Henry L. Stimson Center press conference marking the release of a model Code of Conduct targeted at preventing dangerous military activities in outer space. Key provisions of the Code of Conduct include avoiding collisions and dangerous maneuvers in space; creating special caution and safety areas around satellites; developing safer traffic management practices in space; prohibiting simulated attacks and anti-satellite tests in space; providing reassurance through information exchanges, transparency and notification measures; and adopting more stringent space debris mitigation measures. |
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| Oct. 29 Conference - "Outer Space and International Security: Options for the Future" |
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October 27, 2003 |
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| CDI Vice President Theresa Hitchens will join other renown space security experts to discuss, “Outer space and international security: options for the future.” This conference is part of the Security Space Forum organized by the Security Policy Studies Program and the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. It will run from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Lindner Family Commons, Room 602, 1957 E Street N.W., Washington, D.C. Space is imited, so make your reservation today. |
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U.S./EU/China Strategic Policies in Space:
Balance of Power or International Cooperation? |
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October 3, 2003 |
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| On Tuesday, Oct. 14, CDI Vice President Theresa Hitchens will speak at a panel discussion titled, “U.S./EU/China Strategic Policies in Space: Balance of Power or International Cooperation?” Also speaking will be Lt. Col. Peter Hays (Executive Editor of Joint Force Quarterly: A Professional Military Journal), David Koplow (Georgetown University), Jeffrey Lewis (University of Maryland), and Nicolas Turcat (President of the National Space Society France). The event is free, open to the public, and will be held at Arlington County Central Library from 7:00 to 9:00 on Oct. 14. This panel is sponsored by the Homeplanet Defense Institute. |
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