Podcast: A Behind the Scenes Look at Space Threats

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How do we know what kind of counterspace weapons Russia and China have been developing? How could missile programs in Iran and North Korea indicate future anti-satellite capabilities? Go behind the scenes of Space Threat Assessment 2018, a new CSIS report, with aerospace security researchers Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson and Thomas G. Roberts. They’re joined by the Secure World Foundation’s Victoria Samson and Brian Weeden to discuss what it’s like to study counterspace weapons—an inherently classified topic—in an unclassified environment.

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