1. G. M. Steinberg, Satellite Reconnaissance: The Role of Informal Bargaining (New York, 1983).
2. See, for example, C. Q. Christol, ‘space Law: Justice for the New Frontier’, Sky and Telescope, November 1984.
3. Different sets of specific constraints to tests of space-based weapon systems are discussed in A. B. Carter, ‘Testing Weapons in Space’, Scientific American, July 1989. A review of the current research on disarmament and security in space, including an extensive bibliography, is given in UNIDIR [United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research] Newsletter, September 1989.
4. UN General Assembly, 1981; see also the later version of 22 August 1983. The proposal for the Inspection Agency was published by TASS on 31 March 1988; the text is reproduced in N. L. Johnson, The Soviet Year in Space, 1988 (Colorado Springs, 1988), Appendix B. The Soviet Union has also proposed at the UN a World Space Organisation to master space for peaceful purposes
5. See A. S. Piradov, ‘Creating a World Space Organization’, Space Policy, May 1988.