War In Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space

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When the US Government thinks about outer space, it thinks not about exploration or science, but about weapons. Believing that wars fought from space are inevitable, President George W. Bush has called for the weaponisation of outer space - a proposal which could provoke a hugely expensive and potentially catastrophically dangerous new arms race. Contrary to Donald Rumsfeld's claim that the US faces a space Pearl Harbor', the authors of this book show how the US itself is the principal obstruction to an international treaty banning weapons from space.'

The world's leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, Dr. Helen Caldicott is the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the 2003 winner of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. Both the Smithsonian Institute and Ladies' Home Journal have named her one of the Most Influential Women of the Twentieth Century. In 2001 she founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, which later became Beyond Nuclear, in Washington, D.C. The author of The New Nuclear Danger, War in Heaven (with Craig Eisendrath), Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer, and Loving This Planet and the editor of Crisis Without End (all published by The New Press), she is currently president of the Helen Caldicott Foundation/NuclearFreePlanet.org. She divides her time between Australia and the United States. Craig Eisendrath is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and author, most recently, of Bush League Diplomacy. He lives in Philadelphia.