PLANETARY DEFENSE
Introduction
Jason Ross
Threat Assessments
LPAC Research Team
Deflection and the Energy-Flux Density Factor
Benjamin Deniston
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
Credit Shane Torgerson |