Verification and Risk for an Anti-Satellite Weapons Ban1

This paper is a summary of a study (in German) supported by the Volkswagen Foundation: J. Scheffran, Rüstungskontrolle im Weltraum — Risiken und Verifikationsmöglichkeiten bei Anti-Satelliten-Waffen, Marburg, October 1985, 141 pp; a shortened version will be published as a PRIF-report.

S.M. Meyer , 'Verification and Risk in Arms Control', International Security, Spring 1984 (Vol. 8, No. 4), p. 111.

Report to the Congress: 'US-Policy on ASAT Arms Control', March 31, 1984.

Arms Control in Space, OTA Workshop Proceedings, May 1984; Anti-Satellite-Weapons, Countermeasures and Arms Control, OTA-Report, September 1985.

B. Jasani , Outer Space-A New Dimension of the Arms Race, London 1982.

R. B. Giffen, US Space System Survivahility, National Defense University Press, 1982.

Arms Control in Space, OTA Workshop Proceedings, May 1984; Averting a Space Weapons Competition, Federation of American Scientists, February-84.

P.B. Stares , Space Weapons and US Strategy, London: Croom Helm, 1985.

Soviet proposal in: B.J. Jasani , Space Weapons - The Arms Control Dilemma . Taylor & Francis, 1984; UCS proposal in: Tirman (ed.), The Fallacy of Star Wars, Vintage Book 1984.

H. Fischer , R. Labusch , E. Maus , J. Scheffran , Proposal for a 'Treaty on the Limitation of the Military Use of Outer Space' , German text in: R. Labusch, E. Maus, W. Send, Weltraum ohne Waffen, Bertelsmann, 1984, English version available.

Averting a Space Weapons Competition, FAS/February-84.

Several sources, particularly: Jeffrey Richelson , 'Technical Collection and Arms Control', in: Potter, Verification and Arms Control , Lexington Books, 1985, p. 169.

Several sources: Arms Control in Space, OTA Workshop Proceedings, May 1984; W. J. Durch, Anti-Satellite Weapons, Arms Control Options, and the Military Use of Space, Study for the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, July 1984; W. J. Durch, 'Verification of Limitations on Antisatellite Weapons', in: W. C. Potter, Verification and Arms Control, Lexington Books, 1985, p. 81; R. L. Garwin, 'ASAT Treaty Verification', Paper presented at MIT Conference on Technical Means of Verification, February 1, 1984.

The test series was first described in: G. E. Perry, 'Identification of military components within the Soviet space programme', in ref. 5, p. 135; G. E. Perry, R.S. Flagg, 'Telemetry from Russian Spacecraft', Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 23, pp. 451-464, 1970.

For description of the US-ASAT, see: J. Pike, 'Space weapons race - stop it now', F.A.S. Public Interest Report, November 1983, E. Raiten, K. Tsipis, Conventional Antisatellite Weapons, Program in Science and Technology for International Security, MIT Cambridge, March 1984; E. Raiten, 'Technologies for Conventional Anti-Satellite Weapons', in: K. Tsipis, P. Janeway, U.S. Military Research and Development 1984.

J. Scheffran, 'Startbahn fur den Weltraumkrieg? - Der ASAT-Test und die Osterinsel', Informationsdienst Wissenschaft & Frieden, 4/85.

J. Hecht, Beam Weapons — The Next Arms Race, Plenum Press 1984.