Space Junk - Space Weapons (with Daniel Porras) - Spotlight on India's ASAT Test
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In this episode I talk with Daniel Porras, a Space Security Fellow at UNIDIR, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Daniel focuses on political and legal issues surrounding space security and, in particular, the progressive development of sustainable norms of behaviour for space. We talk about space weaponization, space debris, and India’s recent ASAT test.
Daniel's full bio can be found here: http://www.unidir.org/about/staff/daniel-porras
In the spirit of disarmament, Daniel has selected Black Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’ from their 1970 album 'Paranoid' to begin and end this podcast. The version used in this podcast can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w
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