CNS Subjects: Missiles

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General

  • Missile Nonproliferation Challenges: Assessment and Prospects for Multilateral Solutions
    A presentation by Dennis M. Gormley for a seminar sponsored by the European Union's Institute for Security Studies.
    Created: June 5, 2007

  • Cruise Control
    an article by Dennis M. Gormley for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
    Created: May 9, 2006

  • Land-attack Cruise Missiles Pose Growing Threat
    An article summarizing the talk given by Dennis Gormley on April 27, 2006, at the "Cruise Missile & IED Defense Conference: Joint Engagement of Time-Critical Air & Ground Targets," sponsored by the Defense News Media Group.
    Created: April 27, 2006

  • Space Conflict or Space Cooperation?
    U.S. defense policy assumes space weapon deployment is the answer to the vulnerability of space assets. However, "cooperative engagement" with possible rivals in space, and steering programs toward U.S. interests may be an equally viable option.
    CNS Research Story by James Clay Moltz.
    Created: January 26, 2006

  • The Threat of Missiles and Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs)
    Testimony by Dennis M. Gormley
    Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Affairs off the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform
    March 10, 2004

  • Moonstruck: What's Up with U.S. Space Policy?
    The announcement by President George W. Bush at NASA on January 14, 2003, of plans to establish a permanent base on the Moon has stirred the pot in a long-simmering debate over the future course of U.S. space exploration.
    Research Story of the Week by James Clay Moltz.
    Created: February 2, 2004

  • Sweeping the Skies
    Even if small nuclear warheads are employed in U.S. defenses, there will be no immaculate interceptions.
    An article by Peter D. Zimmerman and Charles D. Ferguson for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
    Created: November 6, 2003

  • Exploring Linkages among Missile Proliferation, Missile Defense, and Space Security
    "Although missiles, missile defense technology, and space issues are intricately related, most policy analysis tends to treat each in a separate category. This tendency causes policymakers to miss the linkages among them and the overlap in the issues that affect developments in each of the other sectors."
    Research Story of the Week by James Clay Moltz.
    Created: August 14, 2003

  • North Korean Cruise Missile Tests--and Iraqi Cruise Missile Attacks--Raise Troubling Questions for Western Missile Defenses
    "In the end, hedging against the cruise missile threat depends as much on developing more effective nonproliferation policies as it does on planning for more versatile missile defenses."
    Research Story of the Week by Dennis Gormley.
    Created: April 8, 2003

  • Nuclear & Missile Database
    Information on nuclear technology, missile developments, and transactions between selected countries.
    Last Updated: January 2003

  • Future Security in Space: Commercial, Military, and Arms Control Trade-Offs
    Occasional Paper #10 continues a collaboration between the Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies at the University of Southampton. This publication is a series of papers identifying areas of common ground in the field of future space activity.
    James Clay Moltz, ed.
    Created: July 30, 2002

  • Future Space Security
    Today, only the United States and Russia have tested space weapons of any sort, but a handful of other countries (including India and China) are believed to be conducting at least initial research into lasers and kinetic kill systems intended for space attack. An issue brief by Dr. Clay Moltz for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
    Updated: July 2002

  • Space Weapons or Space Arms Control?
    Research Story of the Week by James Clay Moltz.
    Created: April 15, 2002

  • Breaking the Deadlock on Space Arms Control
    An article by James Clay Moltz for Arms Control Today.
    Created April 5, 2002

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Americas

  • Missile Defense and Space Policy: 2004 Presidential Candidate Positions
    President George W. Bush and the leading Democratic presidential contenders offer differing views on missile defense, the weaponization of space, and space exploration.
    CNS Research Story by Caitlin Baczuk and Rebecca Schauer.
    Created: February 16

  • Moonstruck: What's Up with U.S. Space Policy?
    The announcement by President George W. Bush at NASA on January 14, 2003, of plans to establish a permanent base on the Moon has stirred the pot in a long-simmering debate over the future course of U.S. space exploration.
    Research Story of the Week by James Clay Moltz.
    Created: February 2, 2004

  • What's Behind U.S. Nonproliferation Sanctions Against Norinco?
    The Bush administration's decision to impose a ban on imports from the China North Industries Group (Norinco) and its subsidiaries for transfers of dual-use equipment to a company involved in Iran's ballistic missile program marks a significant shift in the Bush administration's nonproliferation policy.
    Research Story of the Week by Phillip Saunders and Stephanie Lieggi.
    Created: May 30, 2003

  • Russia's Approach to the U.S. Missile Defense Program
    Russia considered the ABM Treaty as the cornerstone of strategic stability and one of the most important strategic documents between Moscow and Washington.
    An issue brief by Victor Mizin for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
    Created: February 2003

  • China's Space Capabilities and the Strategic Logic of Anti-Satellite Weapons
    In recent years, some U.S. politicians and analysts have claimed that China's reported efforts to develop anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons pose a direct threat to U.S. space assets (and thus U.S. space dominance).
    Research Story of the Week by Phillip Saunders, Jing-dong Yuan, Stephanie Lieggi, and Angela Deters.
    Created: July 22, 2002

  • Future Space Security
    Today, only the United States and Russia have tested space weapons of any sort, but a handful of other countries (including India and China) are believed to be conducting at least initial research into lasers and kinetic kill systems intended for space attack. An issue brief by Dr. Clay Moltz for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
    Updated: July 2002

  • "START III": An End Or Beginning of Negotiations
    "During their meeting on May 23-25, Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin will sign a new agreement on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons, often referred to -- especially in the Russian press -- as 'START III.'"
    Research Story of the Week by Nikolai Sokov.
    Created: May 14, 2002

  • Space Weapons or Space Arms Control?
    Research Story of the Week by James Clay Moltz.
    Created: April 15, 2002
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Middle East

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NIS

  • Russia Tests a New Ground-Launched Cruise Missile and a New Strategic Missile on the Same Day
    On May 29, 2007 Russia tested two new missiles, immediately igniting considerable controversy and speculation. The tests were advertised as a response to Eastern European missile defense but are they?
    A CNS Research Story by Nikolai Sokov.
    Created: June 1, 2007

  • The Future Shape of Russia's ICBM Force Clarified
    The November 1, 2005 test of a road-mobile Topol-M ICBM with a maneuverable warhead and new information released simultaneously shed light on the land leg of the Russian strategic triad.
    CNS Research Story by Nikolai Sokov.
    Created: November 9, 2005

  • Military Exercises In Russia: Naval Deterrence Failures Compensated By Strategic Rocket Success
    These exercises give a reasonably clear picture not only of what the Russian Armed Forces are now, but, more importantly, what they are likely to become in the future.
    CNS Research Story by Nikolai Sokov.
    Created: February 24

  • Russian-Ukrainian Missile Cooperation
    On July 25, 2003, the last of 30 sets of boosters for SS-19 ICBMs were delivered to Russia by an Ukrainian state export company. Although not unprecedented, it may be a precursor to closer cooperation between Russian and Ukrainian ballistic missile design and production facilities.
    Research Story of the Week by Michael Jasinski.
    Created: September 19, 2003

  • Russia's Approach to the U.S. Missile Defense Program
    Russia considered the ABM Treaty as the cornerstone of strategic stability and one of the most important strategic documents between Moscow and Washington. U.S. withdrawal from the Treaty and the Bush administration's focus on the development of a nationwide missile defense system is seen by some Russian political and military elites as a resuscitation of the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative.
    An issue brief by Victor Mizin for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
    Created: February 26, 2003

  • "START III": An End Or Beginning of Negotiations
    "During their meeting on May 23-25, Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin will sign a new agreement on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons, often referred to -- especially in the Russian press -- as 'START III.'"
    Research Story of the Week by Nikolai Sokov.
    Created: May 14, 2002

  • Bulgaria Reaffirms Plan to Destroy SS-23s
    "During a late April visit to the United States to lobby for Bulgaria's entry into NATO, Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha reaffirmed Bulgaria's commitment to destroy the country's eight remaining operational SS-23 missiles."
    Research Story of the Week by Youliana Ivanova.
    Created: May 6, 2002

  • Greater Attention Pledged to Russian Triad's Naval Leg
    Research Story of the Week.
    Created: March 4, 2002

  • Russia to Lease Two Nuclear Submarines to India
    Research Story of the Week.
    Created: February 18, 2002
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East Asia

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South Asia

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