July 2014
Defending NATO and its allies from high-altitude threats
... to the perception of a special relationship and a danger to the Alliance that is posed by advancing Iranian ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes. In the preface to the Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report for 2010, the then Secretary...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
...the survival and development of humanity from nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, climate change and biosecurity -...physical mess [and]... is also a legal mess.” Technology, be it nuclear, space systems or anything else, is important for the well-being of...
August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... mass of fuel required approaches the mass of our galaxy! Nuclear fusion, however, has the potential for an Isp of several...But with the arms control provisions of the early 1960s banning nuclear weapons in space this concept ceased to be pursued. An ...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... lives, these low mass stars end up as a planetary nebula, ejecting any (or all) of the 3He produced via nuclear reactions taking place in the star’s core. The models predict that the amount of 3He that should...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... our terrestrial seas and oceans, but it still needed a mini-nuclear generator to melt the 2 km ice sheet at -160 degrees ...hostility could lead to a cascade as in the era of nuclear deterrence. This was voluntary, since civil aircraft and combat ...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
..., space missions were directly linked to military projects. Launcher technologies were developed with the goal of transporting nuclear bombs from one continent to another. As the capacities increased, the USSR and the USA became capable...
