PLANETARY DEFENSE
Introduction
Jason Ross

Threat Assessments
LPAC Research Team
Deflection and the Energy-Flux Density Factor
LPAC Research Team
Observation Systems
Benjamin Deniston
CONFERENCE REPORT
International Global Monitoring Aerospace Systems
Toward Collaboration in the Defense of Mankind
Benjamin Deniston, Pavel Penev, and Jason Ross

INTERVIEWS
SDE: Hypervelocity Asteroid Deflection
Brent Barbee and Professor Bong Wie
Space Exploration and Physics Breakthroughs
General Vladimir Popovkin
Protecting Mankind from Extra-Terrestrial Threats
Claudio Maccone, Ph.D.
KRAFFT EHRICKE AND THE FUTURE OF MANKIND
Why Mankind Has an Extraterrestrial Imperative
Marsha Freeman
SPACE POWER
The Space-Time of Increased Energy Flux Density
Creighton Jones
INTERVIEWS
An Inside Look at Russia’s Nuclear Propulsion System
Academician Anatoly Koroteyev
With Committed Funding, We Could Develop a
Nuclear Rocket
Stanley Borowski, Ph.D.
Developing Fusion Rockets to Go to Mars
Professor John Slough
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NEWSBRIEFS

SPACE
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL CONGRESS
Space Scientists Meet Amidst
Uncertainty and Hope

FUSION
Scientists Launch a Fight to
Save the U.S. Fusion Program

ENVIRONMENT
Lessons of the L’Aquila
Earthquake Sentence
EDITORIAL
The Fight Over Knowledge
Jason Ross

BOOKS
Global Aerospace Monitoring and
Disaster Management
by Valery A. Menshikov, Anatoly N. Perminov, and Yuri M.Urlichich
Reviewed by William Jones

Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist
by Peter Brown, Director
Reviewed by Gregory Murphy

Viruses for Everyone
by Carl Zimmer
Reviewed by Liona Fan-Chiang

BOOKS RECEIVED

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