Space Legal Regimes, Militarization, and Weaponization of Outer Space

1. Introduction. Studies of radiation damage in ceramics are of interest not only from a fundamental point of view but also because it is important to understand the behavior of ceramics in various practical radiation enyironments- fission and fusion reactors, nuclear waste storage media, ion-implantation devices, outer space, etc. A great deal of work has been done on the spectroscopy of point defects and small defect clusters in ceramics, but relatively little has been performed on defect agglomeration using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in the same kind of detail that has been so successful in metals. This article will assess our present understanding of radiation damage in ceramics with illustrations using results obtained from the authors' work.

ENEMY FROM OUTER SPACE

Chemical & Engineering News ◽

10.1021/cen-v036n036.p004 ◽

1958 ◽

Vol 36 (36) ◽

pp. 4

Keyword(s):

Outer Space

It came from outer space

The New Scientist ◽

10.1016/s0262-4079(06)60089-4 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 190 ◽

pp. 17-17

Keyword(s):

Outer Space

International legal protection of outer space from debris

Kosmìčna nauka ì tehnologìâ ◽

10.15407/knit2015.02.086 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 21 (2(93)) ◽

pp. 86-88

Author(s):

N.R. Malysheva ◽

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V.V. Semenyaka ◽

O.S. Stelmakh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Outer Space ◽

Legal Protection

Turning Aliens into Socialists

International Journal for the Study of New Religions ◽

10.1558/ijsnr.v1i1.75 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 75-93

Author(s):

Jessica Moberg

Keyword(s):

Outer Space ◽

The United States ◽

Second World War ◽

World War ◽

History Of ◽

Swedish History ◽

Second World ◽

The Universe ◽

Highly Evolved

Immediately after the Second World War Sweden was struck by a wave of sightings of strange flying objects. In some cases these mass sightings resulted in panic, particularly after authorities failed to identify them. Decades later, these phenomena were interpreted by two members of the Swedish UFO movement, Erland Sandqvist and Gösta Rehn, as alien spaceships, or UFOs. Rehn argued that ‘[t]here is nothing so dramatic in the Swedish history of UFOs as this invasion of alien fly-things’ (Rehn 1969: 50). In this article the interpretation of such sightings proposed by these authors, namely that we are visited by extraterrestrials from outer space, is approached from the perspective of myth theory. According to this mythical theme, not only are we are not alone in the universe, but also the history of humankind has been shaped by encounters with more highly-evolved alien beings. In their modern day form, these kinds of ideas about aliens and UFOs originated in the United States. The reasoning of Sandqvist and Rehn exemplifies the localization process that took place as members of the Swedish UFO movement began to produce their own narratives about aliens and UFOs. The question I will address is: in what ways do these stories change in new contexts? Texts produced by the Swedish UFO movement are analyzed as a case study of this process.

Legal regimes of sea spaces as a factor of economic activity

Shipbuilding and marine infrastructure ◽

10.15589/smi20160106 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 0 (1-2) ◽

Author(s):

Vladymir N. Parsyak ◽

Kateryna V. Parsyak

Keyword(s):

Economic Activity ◽

Legal Regimes