• About the base
  Protestors' view of the base - items on police, cameras, fences and views of the track
  Research Study Group Fylingdales entry
  Logica evaluates system for UK Government - 4 February 1992. Logica was awarded a contract for the security evaluation of the UK BMEWS.
  The US Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project - list of US bases (inc. Fylingdales).
  Latest news on Missile Defence issues and the UK

   

• ABM Treaty
  The ABM Treaty .
  The ABM Treaty from the Federation of American Scientists
  Arms Control Discourse by Jerry Everard, Chapter 4 Discusses Fylingdales and Krasnoyarsk radar interms of the ABM.
  ABM Treaty "Talking Points" on NMD and the ABM Treaty fom the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
  ABM Treaty Chronology .

   

• Operation
  Federation of American Scientists - Space Policy Project.
  Space & Information Operations Directorate - How space surveillance provides information on what is orbiting Earth, sends messages to tactical commanders to warn them when they can be observed.
  Space Surveillance Network - USSPACECOM is primarily interested in the active satellites, but also tracks space debris. The SSN tracks space objects which are 10 centimeters in diameter (baseball size) or larger.
  Space Surveillance Network User Support Data - Identifies the Space Surveillance Network (SSN) resources, organizational responsibilities, and SSN data products. Tells how to request SSN data and establishes a method of data distribution.
  United States Strategic Command Home Page.
  Peterson Air Force Base Home Page.
  The US 21st Space Wing Home Page.
  The US 12th Space Warning System Fact sheet
  The US 13th Space Warning System Fact sheet
  NORAD Home Page.
  Cheyenne Mountain underground combat operations center.
  Strategic Air Command Home Page.

   

• Early Warning
  BMEWS - National Security Space Road Map - from the Federation of American Scientists.
  The Early Warning Connection - Early Warning and the Cold War.

   

• "Incidents"
  BMEWS at Thule detected rising moon as incoming missiles - 5 Oct 1960, from Risks Digest.
  U.S. Fears Satellites Damaged - from Risks Digest.
  Early Warning Vulnerability (Was Re: US Fears Satellites Damaged) - 7 Feb 1988, from Risks Digest.
  Risks Digest - "... The motivation behind a big military electronic system such as SAGE or BMEWS is not to have it work. It is just to create the illusion that the sponsor is doing his job ..."
  Twenty mishaps that might have started Accidental Nuclear War - by Dr. Alan Phillips FRCPC. 24 Nov.61: BMEWS communication failure. On the night of 24 November, 1961, all communication links went dead between SAC HQ and NORAD, and so cut SAC HQ off from the three BMEWS sites.

   

• Other BMEWS and associated systems
  510 full days at Thule BMEWS.
  Statement of Objectives for the Clear Radar Upgrade - 28 March 1997.
  US Air Force Space Command - its heritage.
  The North Atlantic Radio System (NARS) - 1961-1992.
  The DEWLine Chronicles - A History by Lynden T. (Bucky) Harris.

   

• Other Articles Related to Fylingdales
  Space Surveillance
  Space Surveillance - by Dr. T.S. Kelso
  Space Policy e-Prints - Archive of materials from the Federation of American Scientists.
  History of the Missile Defense Organization - Fact Sheet.
  Menwith Hill Spy Base - all about another major US base used for military and commercial intelligence gathering.
  CAAB - the Campaign for Accountability of American Bases.

 
Star Wars, NMD, BMD, TMD etc.

• CND Briefing on NMD
• Countermeasures - a report on NMD from The Union of Concerned Scientists at MIT - in pdf format (4.98 Mb)
• Defending America - a report on Homeland Defense and NMD produced by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington (680 Kb, pdf) - it runs to around 200 pages,
• Taking National Missile Defense to Sea: A Critique of Sea-Based and Boost-Phase Proposals A report released on the 11 October 2000 by the Council for a Liveable World Education Fund. A 48 page report argues that Sea-based and boost-phase alternatives to national missile defense (NMD) would be expensive and could not be deployed until 2014.
• National Missile Defense: What Does It All Mean? Brief released in September 2000 by the Center for Defense Information, covers all major aspects of the missile defense debate.
• Theater Missile Defenses in the Asia-Pacific Region June 29 2000 report from the Henry L. Stimson Center argues that a simplistic, "one-size-fits-all" policy for TMD would worsen regional security and harm US national security interests.
• The Missile Defense Agency
• BMD Budget 2002 Fact Sheet from MDA
• Boost Phase Missile Defense Fact Sheet from MDA
• Other Fact Sheets from MDA
• Defense Support Program fact sheet
• Federation of American Scientists - Space Policy Project
• Ballistic Missile Defense Program Status Update by John Pike, July 1998. A version of an article that appeared in "Arms Control Today".
• Top 200 Contractors 1997 - Ballistic Missile Defense Program. Total Purchases: $1,394,606,000
• Antimissile Front In The Northern Norway by Theodore Postol and Anatoli Diakov
• Missile Defense and Related Programs from the Federation of American Scientists.
• Missile Defense Research Resources - The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Non-Proliferation Project's excellent page of resources.
• Physicians for Social Responsibility Fact Sheet .
• The Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers Ballistic Missile Defense home page.
• Federation of American Scientists pages on SBIRS
• ABM Treaty "Talking Points" - details of the U.S. proposal on modifications to the ABM Treaty from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - April 2000.
• Vargo Exposed by Inge Sellevag - article in NMD associated radar installation in Norway from The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - March/April 2000.
• Antimissile Front in he Northern Norway by Theodore Postol and Anatoli Diakov - February 2000.

The Nuclearisation of Space including the Cassini Mission

• Cassini and the Outer Space Treaty - a look at the recent past by Russell D. Hoffman.
• Principles Relevant to the Use of Nuclear Power Sources In Outer Space .
• Cassini Campaign website - the science and philosphy behind why Cassini should have been stopped, and suggestions about how the dangerous Cassini 1999 Earth flyby can still be stopped...
• Stop the Cassini Fly-by - the Cassini space probe is due to flyby the Earth on August 18, 1999 carrying 72.3 lbs (32,8 kg) of deadly plutonium on board and is expected to approach Earth at record speeds in excess of 42,000 mph (64,000 km). According to the NASA Environmental Impact Statement, in the event of a collision with our atmosphere this mission has the potential to expose five billion people to 99% or more of the radiation from the plutonium.
• A Scientific Critique of the Accident Risks from the Cassini Space Mission by Michio Kaku.
• NASA's page on the Cassini Space Probe.
• Russian Mars Probe Failure 17/11/96 by Russell D. Hoffman. On Sunday, November 17th, 1996 a Russian space probe headed for Mars instead fell back to Earth after its fourth-stage booster rocket failed on takoff a few days earlier. It contained about 7 ounces (200 grams) of Plutonium (or perhaps 9 ounces and 270 grams, depending on the report) and apparently 'landed' in an unknown place somewhere in the South Pacific Ocean. (Or on land.)
• On the Failure of Cosmos 954 - Star Wars & Reactors in Space: A Canadian View by Michael Bein, 1986.
• Risking the World, Nuclear Proliferation in Space by Karl Grossman, Cassini article in Covert Action Quarterly, issue no. 57, Summer 1996.
• Space Probe Explodes, Plutonium Missing more on the crash of Mars '96, by Karl Grossman in Covert Action Qurterly, issue no. 60, Spring 1997.