International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation

Space Use and Ethics

Volume I: Proceedings

Edited by Bender, Hagen, Kalinowski, Scheffran

This book combines papers written in the context of the conference "Space Use and Ethics" convened by IANUS/INESAP and several other groups in March 1999. (For a conference report, see INESAP Information Bulletin #17, August 1999.) A second volume with a comprehensive collection of space-related documents is to follow.

- Space Use and Ethics. Much Ado About a Conference, Regina Hagen and Jürgen Scheffran

- Welcome Address, Wolfgang Bender

Criteria for Space Research and Space Use

- Ethical Criteria for the Assessment of Space Projects, Wolfgang Bender

- Peaceful and Sustainable Use of Space Principles and Criteria for Evaluation, Jürgen Scheffran

- On the Justifiability of Space Missions, Hartmut Sax

- Ethical Criteria for Space Use - a Russian Perspective, Ruben G. Apressyan

Use of Nuclear Power in Space

- Alternative Power Sources for Deep Space Missions, Kai Petzke

- Plutonium Releases into the Atmosphere, Roland Wolff

- German Participation in the NASA 'Mars Surveyor' Program, Göstar Klingelhöfer

- Reducing the Energy Requirements of the Payload on Space Missions, Uwe Bonnes

Missile Defense

- The Struggle on the ABMTreaty: US-Russian Talks, Bernd W. Kubbig

- NMD System Architecture and Its Compatibility With the ABM Treaty, Götz Neuneck and Michael Schaaf

Military Use of Space

- Dual-Use of Satellite Remote Sensing, Wulf von Kries

- Dual-Use and European Military Space Systems, Dieter Engels

- The Weaponization and Nuclearization of Space, Karl Grossman

Science and Manned Space Missions

- Small Space Philosophy for Big Knowledge Gains, Wolfgang Engelhardt

- Manned Space Missions - Useless or Key to the Future?, Johannes Weyer

- Russian Perspectives of Space Projects, Igor Gabelko

Conflict and International Space Law

- Who Controls Space?, R. Balasubramaniam

- Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and International Law, Hans-Joachim Heintze

- Space Law and the Principle of Non-Appropriation, Kai-Uwe Schrogl

Space Research and Space Policy

- The Future of Space Research and Policy, Andreas Schlossarek

- Social Responsibility in Research, Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Betriebs- und Personalräte der außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen (AGBR)

- Demands to Future Space Research and Policy, Regina Hagen