What Role Will Space Play in the Three Cases Above?
• Rogue states could go through space to deliver a nuclear device on an adversary’s soil (they may rather go for a bomb in a suitcase but that is not covered in this paper!) or to detonate it in orbit, neutralizing satellites in low orbit. They could also make use of existing space facilities (e.g. GPS) to hit a precisely defined target. This threat is very destabilizing and dangerous and needs to be confronted. • International terrorism would hardly be able to reach space directly by conventional means due to a lack of territory and infrastructure (unless they team up with rogue states). But it could wreak havoc on space assets by neutralizing ground stations. Space assets in general could become targets of terrorism and serve as a means for conducting terrorist acts. Much is now being written about how cyber-terror and indeed infiltration and control of the cyber network could use a nation’s own critical infrastructure and facilities to inflict damage upon itself (September 11). An e
