The 'Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space' (also known as the 'Global Network' or the 'GN') is an international network of organisations and individuals who are concerned about the militarisation and exploitation of space. When the US Space Force was established in 2019 President Trump said that it marked “a big moment”
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Every October the GN calls for global actions to support "Keep Space for Peace Week"
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By Mike Wall, Space.com - September 30, 2020 DARPA awarded a $14 million task order to help make it happen. The U.S. military aims to get a nuclear thermal rocket up and running, to boost its ability to monitor the goings-on in Earth-moon space. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
By Robert E.G. Beens,Published by Forbes, 20 September 2020 The U.S. Patriot Act, devised and enacted only weeks after 9/11 in 2001, has become a huge symbol of the massive expansion of government surveillance in the U.S. Twelve years later, in 2013, Edward Snowden’s release of National Security Agency (NSA)
By Subrata Ghoshroy, Buletin of Atomic Scientists - 24 September, 2020 The program to develop a missile defense system to protect the United States mainland has existed in one form or another for nearly six decades. Though it was controversial from the beginning and faced nearly unsurmountable technical challenges, it
By Stuart Clark, Published by the Guardian, 12 September 2020 Miniature satellites open up a world of technological possibility. But experts say they degrade the astronomical landscape The natural serenity of the night sky is a touchstone for all of us. Everyone alive today looks at the same stars no
By Eric D. LawrenceDetroit Free Press - 8 August 2020 Mary Little had just finished making a batch of thimbleberry jam, and she had a few things to say about a proposed vertical rocket launch site in the wilds of the Upper Peninsula. “Anything that close to Lake Superior is
By Julia Conley, Published in Common Dreams - 15 May, 2020 'Shameful Does Not Even Begin to Describe' Trump EPA Decision on Chemical Known to Damage Children's Brains "Yet another abdication of duty by those that are entrusted with protecting Americans from needless and preventable harm." Environmental campaigners vowed to
By Baxter Dmitry, Published by News Punch, 9 May 2020 Almost every corner of the planet will soon be monitored by video surveillance satellites capable of live-streaming coverage of human activity for “governments and large enterprises”— if Bill Gates gets his way. Microsoft founder Bill Gates is bankrolling a company
By Bruce Gagnon, May 09, 2020 Due to the virus pandemic our annual Global Network meeting (scheduled for Ottawa in May along with many other groups in a coalition conference) was cancelled. Thus we have needed to bring together our board members via Internet and did so last night.Twenty of
