1. For a clear statement of the following, see Margaret G. Finarelli and Joseph K. Alexander (Rapporteurs), Space Science and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Summary of a Workshop (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008), 4–5, available at
http://www.nap.edu
/catalog/12093.html.
2. Alvin S. Bass, Dissemination of Technical Information Abroad, June 18, 1970, 7–8, attached to Letter Richard McCurdy, NASA, to Peter G. Petersen, assistant to the president for International Economic Affairs, WHCF [White House Central Files], Subject Files, Folder FG164, NASA 1/1/71- (2 of 2), Nixon Presidential Materials Project.
3. Joseph Cirincione, “Cox Report and the Threat from China,” presentation to the CATO Institute, June 7, 1999, available at
http://www.carnegieendowment.org
/publications/index.cfm.
4. The account t hat follows is based on House Report 105–851 (the Cox Report), especially Chapters 5–8. See also Lewis R. Franklin, “A Critique of the Cox Report Allegations of PRC Acquisition of Sensitive U.S. Missile and Space Technology,” in Michael M. May (ed., with Alastair Iain Johnston, W. K. H. Panofsky, Marco Di Capua, and Lewis R. Franklin), The Cox Committee Report: An Assessment (Stanford University: Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), December 1999), 81–99, at section 3.2.1–3, available at
http://iis-db.stanford.edu
/pubs/10331/cox.pdf. See also
5. Joan Johnson-Freese, “Alice in Licenseland: US Satellite Export Controls Since 1990,” Space Policy 16 (2000), 195–204.