Title: Risk and vulnerability games. The anti-satellite weaponry (ASAT)

Authors: Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu

Addresses: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. ' 'Horia Hulubei' National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P.O. Box MG-6, 077125 Magurele, Bucharest, Romania

Abstract: In the good-old tradition of venerable Martin Gardner|s Mathematical Games, the notes gloss over the issue of anti-satellite weaponry, recently (January 2007) brought back to headlines from a relative oblivion. A few lines of basic Physics and an ad hoc computer simulation are called upon, in support of the notion that, in a World of many dissenting voices and feelings, seeing Space as a readily-vulnerable critical infrastructure is not too far-reaching a proposition.

Keywords: anti-satellite weaponry; critical infrastructures; vulnerability; space security; simulation; satellites; gaming.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2007.014120

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2007 Vol.3 No.3/4, pp.457 - 470

Published online: 21 Jun 2007 *

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