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100 1 _aFORDEN Geoffrey
245 _aAfter China test:
_b time for a limited ban on anti-satellite weapons/
_c Feoffrey Forden
260 _c2007
520 _aChina ASAT weapon hits it target. China has been developing this weapons system for quite some time with previous flight tests of the tracking systems. Press commentary has focused on the threat to US military systems. The real danger lies less in the military realm than in the long term risk to civilian communications weather forecasting, and pure scientific research conducted by all space faring nations.
650 _aCHINA
_xNUCLEAR
773 _aArms Control Today :
_g April 2007, pp.19-24 (5)
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