October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
...between good and evil. The original film, now called Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, released in 1977, was essentially...I sincerely doubt we’d do as well as Hollywood suggests in a ‘war of the worlds’. About the author Lembit Öpik was elected to ...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
...) by Akkan Pseudoman (pseudonym for Edwin Northrup). Post-war push The German military’s interest in the activities of ... and away!) also have the potential to be used as weapons of war (up, and then down). This is a dilemma with which rocketeers have ...
July 2014
In search of strategic stability
... which has passed since the end of the Cold War. The Cold War was a unique period in world history. There was...-East Asia present a wide raft of possibilities for a US-China war of nerves, similar to that which existed between Washington and Moscow...
March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
... his anxiety over the nuclear standoff as a product of the Cold War, when he sings, “Used to look in on the children at...from his own country. In the absence of grandiose, Cold War-era enemies, filmmakers and artists had increasingly begun to search ...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...total annihilation of the human race in a nuclear Third World War and the threat of the ‘destruction of the human spirit’ ... of the psychological trauma brought on by the Second World War: 50 million people dead, and hundreds of millions of people...
December 2014
Necessity is the mother of invention
...Israel Ministry of Defense (IMoD) in 2005 (even before the Second Lebanon War). In the same year, the IMoD, together with the US Department ... coupled with the pressure created after the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Two years later, the IMoD selected ...
