Weapons in the heavens: seems like most video games are space-based shoot'em ups. The Pentagon itself, caught up in the fever, envisions what it calls, "Rods from God." But, just as some in the military plan for extending U.S. dominance by basing weapons in space, others say it would be counterproductive and too costly. Join us for a voyage from science fiction to scientific reality.
Theresa Hitchens, Director of the Center for Defense Information
Roald Sagdeyev, Space Scientist, East-West Science &Technology Center, Former Adviser to Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev
Gregory Kulacki, China Specialist at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Everett Dolman, U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air & Space Studies
General Charles Horner (USAF Ret.), Former Head of U.S. Space Command
(clicking on a guest's name will open their full interview audio file.)
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Chuck Rogers
Production Engineer: Chuck Johnson
Music in this program: open- “Space” by Bond, Decca Music Group, welcome- “A United Earth I by Alan Stivell and Yousou N’Dour, Putumayo World Music; insert 1- “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo” by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Warner Brothers; insert 2- “Saratoga” by Ultramarine, Caroline Records; break 1- “Flying Saucer Dudes” by Bela Fleck and the Flectones, Warner Brothers; break 2- “Space” by Julian Lennon, Charisma Records; bottom of the hour billboard- “A United Earth I” by Alan Stivell and Yousou N’Dour, Putumayo World Music; and, “Space” by Julian Lennon, Charisma Records; and, “Space” by the Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead Records; break 3- “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears, Mercury/Universal Records; close and credits- “Dimension 37” by Chris Surma, courtesy of Chris Surma.
This program was funded by The Arsenault Foundation.
Duration: 55:00 minutes
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The Center for Defense Information (CDI) http://www.cdi.org/about/index.cfm analyses U.S. national security, international security and defense policy. CDI is part of the World Security Institute http://www.worldsecurityinstitute.org/. Among their publications is the acclaimed newletter The Defense Monitor http://www.cdi.org/program/index.cfm?programid=75.
Roald Sagdeyev told his story in The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space From Stalin to Star Wars http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471129291.html, his memoir published in 1995.
The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS’s experts and programs focus on Clean Energy, Clean Vehicles, Food and Environment, Global Warming, Invasive Species, Scientific Integrity and Global Security http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/.
Dr. Everett Dolman is the author of Astropolitik: Classical Geopolitics in the Space Age http://www.amazon.com/Astropolitik-Classical-Geopolitics-Strategy-Histor.... Air University’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS) is the US Air Force graduate school for airpower and space power strategists. http://www.au.af.mil/au/saass/history.asp
The United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) was a unified command of the United States military created in 1985 to help institutionalize the use of outer space by the United States . The Department of Defense merged U.S. Space Command with the United States Strategic Command in 2002. http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm/initiatives/usspace.htm. General Charles Horner retired in 1994 http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5859.
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