The Cold War, the Space Race, and the Law of Outer Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cold War, the Space Race, and the Law of Outer Space write by Albert K. Lai. This book was released on 2021-07-26. The Cold War, the Space Race, and the Law of Outer Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cold War, the Space Race, and the Law of Outer Space: Space for Peace tells the story of one of the United Nations’ most enduring and least known achievements: the adoption of five multilateral treaties that compose the international law of outer space. The story begins in 1957 during the International Geophysical Year, the largest ever cooperative scientific endeavor that resulted in the launch of Sputnik. Although satellites were first launched under the auspices of peaceful scientific cooperation, the potentially world-ending implications of satellites and the rockets that carried them was obvious to all. By the 1960s, the world faced the prospect of nuclear testing in outer space, the placement of weapons of mass destruction in orbit, and the militarization of the moon. This book tells the story of how the United Nations tried to seize the promise of peace through scientific cooperation and to ward off the potential for war in the Space Age through the adoption of the Outer Space Treaty, the Rescue and Return Agreement, the Liability Convention, the Registration Convention, and the Moon Agreement. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book will be of interest to scholars in law, history and other fields who are interested in the Cold War, the Space Race, and outer space law.
Epic Rivalry
Epic Rivalry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Epic Rivalry write by Von Hardesty. This book was released on 2007. Epic Rivalry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the epic race to the moon between the United States and the Soviet Union, discussing both countries' space exploration programs, the scientists and political leaders involved, and the key achievements and disasters of both.
The Other Space Race
The Other Space Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Other Space Race write by Nicholas Michael Sambaluk. This book was released on 2015-12-15. The Other Space Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Other Space Race is a unique look at the early U.S. space program and how it both shaped and was shaped by politics during the Cold War. Eisenhower’s “New Look” expanded the role of the Air Force in national security, and ultimately allowed ambitious aerospace projects, namely the “Dyna-Soar,” a bomber equipped with nuclear weapons that would operate in space. Eisenhower’s space policy was purely practical, creating a strong deterrent against the use of nuclear arms against the United States. With the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, the political climate changed, and space travel became part of the United States’ national discourse. Sambaluk explores what followed, including the scuttling of the “Dyna-Soar” program and the transition from Eisenhower’s space policy to John Kennedy’s. This well-argued, well-researched book gives much needed perspective on the Cold War’s influence on space travel and it’s relation to the formation of public policy.
The First Space Race
The First Space Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Space Race write by Matt Bille. This book was released on 2004. The First Space Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers an account of the competitive technological and political race between the United States and the Soviet Union and their leaders to launch satellites.
War and Peace in Outer Space
War and Peace in Outer Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and Peace in Outer Space write by Cassandra Steer. This book was released on 2021-01-11. War and Peace in Outer Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Historically, strategic restraint was the dominant approach among nations active in outer space, all of whom understood that continued access to and use of space required holding back on threats or activities which might jeopardize the status quo of peace in space. However, recently there has been a discernible shift in international rhetoric towards a more offensive approach to defense in space. The U.S. move towards establishing a "Space Force" has been echoed by similar announcements in France and Japan. India launched an anti-satellite weapon test and announced proudly that it thereby joined the elite group of China, Russia and the U.S., who have all demonstrated this capability in the past. And as technologies in space advance, along with our terrestrial dependence on space-based systems for our peaceful civilian lives and for support of terrestrial warfare, the political stability of this vulnerable environment comes under threat. These factors, combined with a lack of transparency about actual capabilities and intentions on the part of all major players in space, creates a cyclical escalation which has led some commentators to describe this as a return to a Cold War-type arms race, and to the foreseeability of a space-based conflict. Due to many unique characteristics of the space domain, an armed conflict in space would be catastrophic for all players, including neutral States, commercial actors, and international civil society. Due to the specificity of the space domain, specialized expertise must be provided to decision-makers, and interdisciplinary opinions must be sought from a multitude of stakeholders. To that end, this volume provides a wide spectrum of perspectives from experts who have engaged together at a conference hosted by the Center for Ethics in the Rule of Law to discuss these issues. Ethical, legal and policy solutions are offered here by those with experience in the space sector, including academia, legal practitioners, military lawyers and operators, diplomats and policy advisors"--
