Theresa Hitchens has been Director of UNIDIR since January 2009.
Previously, she was Director of the US Center for Defense
Information and led its Space Security Project, in cooperation
with Secure World Foundation. She is a member of the World
Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Space Security.Theresa
Hitchens has been Director of UNIDIR since January 2009.
Previously, she was Director of the US Center for Defense
Information and led its Space Security Project, in cooperation
with Secure World Foundation. She is a member of the World
Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Space Security.   Why
is this issue something that worries you?  What warning signs
have you seen already? Three nations have tested anti-satellite
weapons in the last three decades: the United States and the
Soviet Union in the 1980s, then China in 2007. The latter
shocked a lot of people. China sent a kinetic weapon – a solid
warhead – slamming into one of its own weather satellites,
causing an explosion which created thousands o