SPI Professor Aaron Bateman Interviewed by Australia’s ABC National Radio

SPI’s Professor Aaron Bateman was interviewed by Australia’s ABC Radio National about the history of global telecommunications networks and their vulnerabilities.

 

The interview was based on his recent article in Engelsberg Ideas on the vulnerabilities of submarine cables and how they can be partially mitigated using proliferated satellite communications.

 

Watch the full interview here.

 

Read the full article here.

Prof. Aaron Bateman

SPI’s Professor Aaron Bateman quoted in Vox on Weapons in Space

VOX – FUTURE PERFECT: How the US is preparing to fight — and win — a war in space – By Tim Fernholz | Updated Feb 15, 2024, 10:19am EST

Aaron Bateman, who studies space security, notes that until the mid-1970s, the US didn’t have the technology to precisely target a satellite with a weapon; its main concept for anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons was to detonate a nuclear warhead as close as possible to the enemy spacecraft.

Space, notably, is the most classified of all military sectors, even more so than the nuclear program. “The US military will tell the US how many B-2s and F-22s that we have; we do not tell the world what we have up in orbit,” Bateman says.