News Sources: Shooting Down a Satellite

The military will try to shoot down a crippled spy satellite in the next two weeks, senior officials said Thursday. The officials laid out a high-tech plan to intercept the satellite over the Pacific just before it tumbles uncontrollably to Earth carrying toxic fuel. The ramifications of the operation are diplomatic, as well as military and scientific, in part because the United States criticized China last year when Beijing tested an antisatellite system with an old weather satellite as a target and in part because of renewed Russian concerns about "star wars" technology. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges and universities, including the following (click on names for contact information):

George E. Hudson - Professor of Political Science, Wittenberg University - Hudson is an authority on the former Soviet Union and modern Russia and use of military as an instrument of foreign policy. He was an adviser to Department of Defense and consultant to National Security Council. Was member of U.S. team which negotiated with Soviets for convential arms reductions in 1979.

Douglas Stuart - Professor of Political Science, Dickinson College - Stuart is an adjunct professor at the U.S. Army War College. His areas of research specialization include U.S. European security relations, and Asian security and arms control.

Bin Yu - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wittenberg University - Bin is president of Chinese Scholars of Political Science and International Studies and a MacArthur fellow at the Center of International Security and Arms Control and research fellow at Center of International Studies, Beijing.