LEADER 03805nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910823893603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89074-7 010 $a0-8122-0236-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202366 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104513 035 $a(OCoLC)802049509 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576041 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720790 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11434184 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720790 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10686451 035 $a(PQKB)11197486 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19906 035 $a(DE-B1597)449095 035 $a(OCoLC)979968267 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202366 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441601 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576041 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441601 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104513 100 $a20090114d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeavenly ambitions $eAmerica's quest to dominate space /$fJoan Johnson-Freese 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (190 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2296-2 311 $a0-8122-4169-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcronyms -- $tPreface -- $tChapter. One Space -- $tChapter Two. The Evolution of U.S. Space Policy -- $tChapter Three. Space Weapons -- $tChapter Four. Strategic Communications -- $tChapter Five. Diplomacy and Arms Control -- $tChapter Six. Globalizing Space -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the popular imagination, space is the final frontier. Will that frontier be a wild west, or will it instead be treated as the oceans are: as a global commons, where commerce is allowed to flourish and no one country dominates? At this moment, nations are free to send missions to Mars or launch space stations. Space satellites are vital to many of the activities that have become part of our daily lives-from weather forecasting to GPS and satellite radio. The militaries of the United States and a host of other nations have also made space a critical arena-spy and communication satellites are essential to their operations. Beginning with the Reagan administration and its attempt to create a missile defense system to protect against attack by the Soviet Union, the U.S. military has decided that the United States should be the dominant power in space in order to protect civilian and defense assets. In Heavenly Ambitions, Joan Johnson-Freese draws from a myriad of sources to argue that the United States is on the wrong path: first, by politicizing the question of space threats and, second, by continuing to believe that military domination in space is the only way to protect U.S. interests in space.Johnson-Freese, who has written and lectured extensively on space policy, lays out her vision of the future of space as a frontier where nations cooperate and military activity is circumscribed by arms control treaties that would allow no one nation to dominate-just as no one nation's military dominates the world's oceans. This is in the world's interest and, most important, in the U.S. national interest. 606 $aAstronautics and state$zUnited States 606 $aSpace race$zUnited States 615 0$aAstronautics and state 615 0$aSpace race 676 $a629.4/10973 700 $aJohnson-Freese$b Joan$0934445 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823893603321 996 $aHeavenly ambitions$94122579 997 $aUNINA