Pavel Podvig

Researcher, Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation

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Researcher at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and co-author of Russian and Chinese Responses to US Military Plans in Space, which was just published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Ronald Reagan's space-based missile-defense program died with the Cold War, but satellites are now key to America's military superiority, as our Army, Air Force and Navy -- even the…

Is It Possible to Ban Weapons in Space?

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