Although satellites, space launch vehicles, missiles, and drones have been operating for more than a half-century, who has them and uses them as well as how they are used is undergoing a set of major revolutions. Almost all of these systems are now dual-use, even developing nations now own and operate them, and they all are far more lethal militarily and commercially significant than they were even 20 years ago. More important, their lethality and commercial utility are likely to continue to grow.
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 […]
On May 12, 2021, Henry Sokolski had an interview with The John Batchelor Show podcast on “The perils of nuke plants on Taiwan.” May 12, 2021
If there is a topic both supporters of Biden and Trump agree about it is the need to bolster Taiwan’s security. For most this has meant selling it more advanced weaponry. But there’s another military danger Taiwan faces that Washington can help reduce — the […]
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