Space Security 2008--preview.
Space Security 2008 is the fifth annual report on trends and developments in space, covering the period from January to December 2007. It is part of a wider Space Security Index (SSI) project that facilitates dialogue among space experts on space security challenges. The project and its publications result...

Space-based weapons--are they worth it?
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has released a new report Arming the Heavens: A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Space-Based Weapons" authored by Steven Kosiak, CSBA's Vice President for Budget Studies. The report is especially timely, given the testing of a...

Analysis; US plan to shoot down disabled spy satellite stirs concern.
Byline: KRISTIN ROBERTS Reuters WASHINGTON - The US decision to shoot down an ailing spy satellite raises new concerns about an arms race in space and could drive Russia and China to respond, analysts said on Thursday, voicing skepticism about the explanation for the move. ...

US National Space Policy: weaponizing space?
October 4-10 marked World Space Week, designated by the United Nations General Assembly "for the yearly celebration at the international level of the contribution that space science and technology can make to the betterment of the human condition," with the objective of "increasing awareness among decision makers and civil...

Russia, China sign treaty of friendship.
MOSCOW (AP) --- Aspiring to forge a ''new international order'' and offset US global influence, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin yesterday signed the first post-Soviet friendship treaty cementing their nations' decade-long partnership. "The friendship treaty will bring Russian-Chinese friendship from generation to...

On the road. (Taking Action).
Calendar Belfast, Northern Ireland September 25-28, Jim Wallis will speak to the Faith Values Initiative on "The Church in Community" and "Embodying Forgiveness." Contact: Heather Marrow, nireland@eauk.org. International October 4-11, International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space. Contact:...

London European Social Forum.
European Social Forum(ESF) Through networking with international NGOs, UK organizations, and with European Sections, WILPF participated in several ESF meetings (October 2004) including Women and Trade Injustice, Militarism and Violence Against Women, Building Peace, Opposing War, Women's Activism, Campaigning Against Weapons in Space and Can we afford...

Staff Departures.
Bill Robinson left Project Ploughshares on June 30 and moved to London, Ontario where his partner, Jacque Newman, will be teaching political science at King's College, University of Western Ontario. Our heartfelt thanks to Bill for his 15 years of invaluable service to Project Ploughshares in advancing our objectives...

Boeing wins Future-X.
NASA has selected the Boeing Phantom Works to develop the X-37 Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV), the first of a series of demonstrators known as "Future-X". Announced by NASA in 1997, the Future-X programme aims to develop advanced space transportation technologies by flying a continuous series of X-craft. Most of...

Toward a new foreign policy.
In the Clinton era, some efforts at controlling the proliferation of space technology were made through international bodies such as the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). When such agencies participate directly in preventing the export of multistage rockets from a nation like North Korea or Iraq to emerging states,...