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Outer Space and International Cooperation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Lincoln P. Bloomfield
Lincoln P. Bloomfield
Affiliation:
A member of the Board of Editors of International Organization, is Professor of Political Science and a senior staff member of the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Extract

On October 4, 1957, when Sputnik I was successfully orbited, it was popular to say that mankind had entered a new age—the Age of Space. If this was not just hyperbole, perhaps we are entitled to make a few judgments about the Space Age as it moves toward the end of its first decade. For, even from this short a perspective, the Space Age sharply illustrates the portentous conflict in our time between the forces of neonationalism and, for want of a better word, internationalism.

Type
II. Cooperation and Conflict
Information
International Organization , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Summer 1965 , pp. 603 - 621
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1965

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References

1 The New York Times, May 26, 1961.

2 It consisted of multiple metal fragments bearing the hammer and sickle emblem and etched with the Cyrillic characters ‘CCCP,’ which scattered on impact, plus a foot-long Soviet flag.

3 General Assembly Resolution 1884 (XVIII), October 17, 1963.

4 Larionov, V., ‘Kosmos i strategiya,’ Krasnaya Zvezia, 03 21, 1963, p. 3Google Scholar. See also Sokolovskii, V. D., Soviet Military Strategy, translated and edited by Dinerstein, Herbert S. and others (Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1963), p. 427Google Scholar. Retired United States Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, E. recently wrote that ‘many of the techniques the Soviet Union has developed so far point strongly toward a military space effort.’ (The New York Times, 03 26, 1965Google Scholar.)

5 Statement in the First (Political and Security) Committee (United States Delegation to the General Assembly, Press Release 3875, December 4, 1961).

6 Department of State Bulletin, 12 30, 1963 (Vol. 49, No. 1279), p. 1011Google Scholar.

7 Clarke, Arthur C., Profiles of the Future (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), p. 190Google Scholar.

8 UN Document A/4141.

9 The question has been newly raised by a Soviet writer in Nedelia, the weekly supplement of Jzvestia, March 20, 1965.

10 UN Document A/4141.

11 General Assembly Resolution 1472 (XIV), December 12, 1959.

12 General Assembly Resolution 1721 (XVI), December 20, 1961.

13 UN Document A/5482.

14 General Assembly Resolution 1884 (XVIII).

15 These principles were embodied in General Assembly Resolutions 1962 and 1963 (XVIII), December 13, 1963.

16 UN Document A/AC.105/L.12.

17 Nedelia, March 20, 1965.

18 Searcy, Joel B. and Chapman, Philip K., A Proposal for a New Space Launching Facility (Lexington, Mass., 04 1964, multilithed)Google Scholar.

19 Interview of former Premier Khrushchev by former United States Senator Benton, William H., reported in The New York Times, 05 30, 1964Google Scholar.

20 Ibid. According to Drew Middleton, Mr. Khrushchev suggested that space photography had eliminated the necessity for reconnaissance flights over Cuba.