Newsletter

Issue #1

June 2023

Read news of the Code, updates on our recent activities and latest information about ballistic missile tests and space launches.

CONTENTS

Latest HCoC News

  • Annual Regular Meeting in Vienna 
  • Fifth EU Council Decision in Support of the HCoC
  • Looking Back on the Nigerian Chairmanship of the HCoC

 

News about the Project

  • Side-Event in Vienna on Upcoming Trends For Ballistic Missile Non-proliferation
  • Youth Group Creation
  • Regional Seminar in Nigeria

 

News about the Ballistic Missiles & Launchers

  • North Korea Tests a Solid-Fuel ICBM
  • Suspension of the New Start Treaty

 

Selected Missiles Tests

Selected SLV Launches

Information and contacts

 

Issue Briefs

The HCoC and Space

The New Space trend – an ongoing innovative transformation of the space sector – has led to a rise of investment in small launch systems. While an increasing number of nations are gaining access to space, the number of private sector entities investing in this domain is also rising. Meanwhile, small space launch vehicles and ballistic missiles rely on increasingly similar technologies.

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Research Papers

The Shield and the Sword: The Impact of Ballistic Missile Defence on Missile Proliferation

Missile defence has become increasingly attractive in recent years, following the demonstration of its efficacity in the Israeli-Iranian conflict, and has epitomised by the ambitious Golden Dome programme. However, its relationship with missile proliferation is ambiguous. Arms control, non-proliferation and confidence building measures can to some extent address some of the most destabilizing features of this offense-defence competition.

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