Last week, the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States released its final report. Although Congress tasked it to assess the role of space systems in America’s strategic posture, the commission dedicated less than a half-page of its 160-page review to this...
Recent reports of Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use his satellites to help it mount strikes against Russian military targets in Crimea pose a basic question: Just how sustainable might military use of commercial satellites be? So far, the United States and other...
This week, commercial imagery revealed more on China’s extensive high-altitude military balloon and blimp program. Experts believe that the purpose of this program is to complement or substitute for Chinese military satellites if they should be disabled in future space combat. Is overflying other states...
NPEC Public Policy Fellowship Research Retreat February 8 and 9, 2023 Wednesday, February 8th China’s Compliance with the NPT Thomas Grant, Senior Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge and former Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning, Bureau of InternationalSecurity and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State...
On March 7, 2023, The National Interest published this occasional paper in “Pyongyang Goes Nuclear—This Time in Space.” Click here to read the full article. Last week, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol catalyzed a once forbidden public debate over whether or not South Korea...
On April 12, 2021, NPEC Executive Director Henry Sokolski gave a lecture to University of San Diego students on the subject of “Dr. Strangelove’s New Passion: Precision-Guided Mayhem.”
With President Biden’s decision on Wednesday to sell Ukraine advanced General Atomic drones and HIMARS accurate multiple rocket launching systems, the war in Ukraine has moved further into a missile-driven conflict whose boundaries will increasingly be defined more by missile threats than any nuclear fulminations....
NPEC Public Policy Fellowship Research Retreat February 9 and 10, 2022 Wednesday, February 9th The ASAT Consequences of Nuclear Explosion in Space Greg Jones, Senior Defense Policy Analyst, Proliferation Matters Click here to view slides. Blue and Brown Water Space Strategies and Their Budgetary Profiles...
On September 9th at 5:00 PM, NPEC hosted a virtual event on “The National Security Case for America Returning to the Moon.” NPEC secured a distinguished panel of space experts to discuss the topic. Peter Garretson, Senior Fellow in Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council,...
On February 3, 2022, Henry Sokolski did an interview with Peter Garretson for the Space Strategy podcast on this report. On January 17, 2022, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a shortened version of this report. Last Friday, Space News reported Vice Chairman of the...
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