meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The John Batchelor Show

#OuterSpaceTreaty: Militarizing Near Space. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.
@Batchelorshow


#OuterSpaceTreaty: Militarizing Near Space. Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
https://npolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NPEC-OST-and-Military-Activities-Feb-2023-1.pdf

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Monso Business Banking. It just works. So you can too. Join businesses like Target

0:05.7

to Wishing by opening a Monso Business account.

0:07.8

What I love about Monso Business account is how easy everything is. It can be filtered,

0:13.1

it can be tagged. We thought we'd have to manage our business around our banks, but that's

0:17.3

not the case for Monso.

0:18.4

My name is Shun. I am the Founder of Target Trition.

0:21.6

Apply in minutes at Monso.com slash business. To apply you must be a sole trader or director

0:26.6

of the limited company, UK Business is only terms and conditions apply.

0:30.1

This is CBS I On the World. I'm John Batch with Henry Sikulski. We moved to near space,

0:42.7

orbit, low earth orbit, higher earth orbit, and the treaty so far drawn up over these last

0:49.2

years since the Cold War and now speak to keeping orbit, not militarized, which is to say

0:58.8

no nuclear weapons. However, near space we've learned through the episode of the balloon

1:05.3

diplomacy, near space is a question mark, including also a new kind of weapon system called

1:14.4

the hypersonic missile. Henry, you have at MPEC and you connect to a number of videos

1:22.4

available on YouTube by Laura Montgomery, a noted attorney who looks at space treaties.

1:28.8

Is there now a conversation about near space, not outer space, that part between 60 or

1:34.8

70,000 feet and 328,000 feet?

1:38.5

Not really there is. The balloon cuffle has supplied us with cause to focus, start reading

1:48.0

and understand ambiguities and how to clarify them and when clarifying is not in our national

1:57.1

interest. That's in gear. If nothing else, the balloon, the spy balloon incident served

2:06.6

us at least as a prod to go back into the library and start reading. That's in tow.

2:17.0

I think what we've discovered is there are not many rules defining what is an airspace.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Batchelor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of John Batchelor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.