Weapons in Space: A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Aaron Bateman

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The Strategic Defense Initiative is remembered as a controversial Reagan-era project to create a space-based missile defense program, but what were its far-reaching consequences for space security? How did this program bring us to where we are today–with growing counterspace capabilities and great power competition in outer space? And what does it say about the future of space security?

For a livestreamed discussion on these themes and questions, please join the CSIS International Security Program virtually for a conversation with Dr. Aaron Bateman, Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University, on his recent book, Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative (MIT Press, 2024).

Introductory remarks will be given by Dr. Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project and senior fellow with the International Security Program. The event will be moderated by Kari A. Bingen, director of the Aerospace Security Project and senior fellow with the International Security Program.

This event is made possible by general support to CSIS.