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Heavenly ambitions [[electronic resource] ] : America's quest to dominate space / / Joan Johnson-Freese



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Autore: Johnson-Freese Joan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Heavenly ambitions [[electronic resource] ] : America's quest to dominate space / / Joan Johnson-Freese Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
Disciplina: 629.4/10973
Soggetto topico: Astronautics and state - United States
Space race - United States
Soggetto non controllato: Political Science
Public Policy
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Chapter. One Space -- Chapter Two. The Evolution of U.S. Space Policy -- Chapter Three. Space Weapons -- Chapter Four. Strategic Communications -- Chapter Five. Diplomacy and Arms Control -- Chapter Six. Globalizing Space -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Heavenly ambitions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-89074-7
0-8122-0236-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779144703321
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