Even as the United States plans a high-profile shoot-down of a wayward satellite, a new report shows Russia, China and others are gaining space market share -- aided by a U.S. policy that some say has misfired.
Analysts are concerned that Iran's development of laser enrichment technology to produce uranium for its nuclear program is an indicator that not only has the nonproliferation export control regime has failed but that its too late to do anything about it.
International inspectors report that Iran's nuclear-energy scientists have produced uranium metal and are testing powerful green lasers -- potential steps toward an exotic means of harvesting weapons fuel that so far has been the exclusive province of developed nuclear nations.
Arms control experts warn that North Korea and Iran appear to have succeeded in mounting clandestine programs for enriching uranium for weapons by breaking through a number of legal and technological safeguards with the help a shadowy new "proliferation ring," or distribution network, involving a number of less developed countries.
Selig Harrison argues that the U.S. should end its double standard with India and provide them with the same civillian nuclear reactor technology they have exported to China to reduce the risk of Indian Chernobyls.
Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in Washington, argues that the Bush Administration's decision to lower the barriers on the export supercomputers has given terrorists and rogue states the tools they need to build nuclear weapons.
Scientists fear they could soon have to ask official permission to publish research papers as the UK Government drafts wide-ranging export control laws that give it the power to vet their work.
One of the casualties of this fall’s terrorist attacks upon the United States may have been the latest effort to reform controls limiting exports of technologies (ex. encryption or missile guidance) that could provide a military advantage to the nation’s potential enemies.
A new report argues that stiffer expert controls have reduced U.S. satellite companies' share of the global market 30 percentage points in 2000 to an all-time low of 45%.
California's commercial satellite industry, which has dominated the world market for decades, lost $1.2 billion in revenue, more than 1,000 jobs and significant market share last year, mainly as a result of stiffer export controls imposed by Congress, says a study to be unveiled today. In one of the more sobering assessments of the industry since passage of the legislation two years ago, the report will also reveal that U.S. satellite companies' share of the global market declined 30 percentage points in 2000 to an all-time low of 45%.