Corona Satellite Imagery Indicators of Soviet Nuclear-weapons Production Activities
Title | Corona Satellite Imagery Indicators of Soviet Nuclear-weapons Production Activities PDF eBook |
Author | Oleg Bukharin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Artificial satellites |
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Intelligence Revolution 1960
Title | Intelligence Revolution 1960 PDF eBook |
Author | Ingard Clausen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Astronautics, Military |
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Overview: Provides a history of the Corona Satellite photo reconnaissance Program. It was a joint Central Intelligence Agency and United States Air Force program in the 1960s. It was then highly classified.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Title | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1961-05 |
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
A History of Satellite Reconnaissance
Title | A History of Satellite Reconnaissance PDF eBook |
Author | James D. Outzen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 602 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Artificial satellites, American |
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Space Weapons Earth Wars
Title | Space Weapons Earth Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Preston |
Publisher | Rand Corporation |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2002-02-13 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0833032526 |
This overview aims to inform the public discussion of space-based weapons by examining their characteristics, potential attributes, limitations, legality, and utility. The authors do not argue for or against space weapons, nor do they estimate the potential costs and performance of specific programs, but instead sort through the realities and myths surrounding space weapons in order to ensure that debates and discussions are based on fact.
Hexagon (KH-9) Mapping Camera Program and Evolution
Title | Hexagon (KH-9) Mapping Camera Program and Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice G. Burnett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Artificial satellites, American |
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The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon programs to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from east European and Asian communist countries. The inability to gain insight into vast "denied areas" required exceptional systems to understand threats posed by US adversaries. Corona was the first imagery satellite system to help see into those areas. Hexagon began as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program with the first concepts proposed in 1964. The CIA's primary goal was to develop an imagery system with Corona-like ability to image wide swaths of the earth, but with resolution equivalent to Gambit. Such a system would afford the United States even greater advantages monitoring the arms race that had developed with the nation's adversaries. The Hexagon mapping camera flew on 12 of the 20 Hexagon missions. It proved to be a remarkably efficient and prodigious producer of imagery for mapping purposes. The mapping camera system was successful by every standard including technical capabilities, reliability, and capacity.
Global Trends 2040
Title | Global Trends 2040 PDF eBook |
Author | National Intelligence Council |
Publisher | Cosimo Reports |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2021-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781646794973 |
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.