Chatter: Satellites, Space Debris, and Hollywood with Aaron Bateman
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 20 November 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Satellites have held a special place in military planning and in spy fiction alike for more than half a century. Both domains ended up devoting much attention to satellite-based weapons and anti-satellite weaponry; both have also dealt with the problem of space debris related to the latter.
In this chat, David Priess and George Washington University historian Aaron Bateman talk about Bateman's early interest in satellites, early satellite technology and attempts at anti-satellite activity, the Outer Space Treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, actions by presidents from Eisenhower through Biden related to the testing of satellite and/or anti-satellite weapons, the Strategic Defense Initiative (commonly called the "Star Wars program"), the problem of space debris, the Kessler Syndrome, other countries' satellite and anti-satellite activities, the Space Force, and on-screen portrayals of satellite warfare and space debris from the James Bond movies to Gravity.
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| 1:07.9 | I'm Will Appleton with an episode of chatter for November 20, 2022. |
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| 1:17.5 | chatter, a podcast hosted by David Priests that features in-depth discussions with fascinating |
| 1:22.8 | people at the creative edges of national security. |
| 1:26.4 | Today's episode of chatter is entitled Satellites, Space Debris and Hollywood with Aaron |
| 1:31.3 | Bateman. |
| 1:32.3 | In the episode, Priests sat down with Bateman, a historian at George Washington University, |
| 1:37.2 | to chat about early satellite technology and attempts at anti-satellite activity, the |
| 1:41.8 | problem of space debris, on-screen portrayals of satellite warfare, and more. |
| 1:47.1 | This is chatter. |
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