Books

Aaron Bateman, Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative (MIT Press, 2024)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Aaron Bateman, “Information Security in the Space Age: Britain’s Skynet Satellite Communications Program and the Evolution of Modern Command and Control Networks,” Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 47, no. 1 (2024) Winner of the 2024 Amos Perlmutter Essay Prize

Aaron Bateman, “Secret Partners: The National Reconnaissance Office and the Intelligence-Industrial-Academic Complex,” Intelligence and National Security, published online June 4, 2023

Aaron Bateman, “Trust but Verify: Satellite Reconnaissance, Secrecy, and Arms Control during the Cold War,” Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 46, no. 5 (2023)

Aaron Bateman, “Mutually Assured Surveillance at Risk: Anti-Satellite Weapons and Cold War Arms Control,” Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 45, no. 1 (2022)

Aaron Bateman, “Keeping the Technological Edge: The Space Arms Race and Anglo-American Relations,” Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 33, no. 2 (2022)

Aaron Bateman, “Intelligence and Alliance Politics: America, Britain, and the Strategic Defense Initiative,” Intelligence and National Security, vol. 36, no. 7 (2021)

Aaron Bateman, “Technological Wonder and Strategic Vulnerability: Satellite Reconnaissance and American National Security during the Cold War,” International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, vol. 33, no. 2 (2020)

Aaron Bateman, “The KGB and its Enduring Legacy,” Journal of Slavic Military Studies, vol. 29, no. 1 (2016)

Aaron Bateman, “The Political Influence of the Russian Security Services,” Journal of Slavic Military Studies, vol. 27, no. 3 (2014)

Commentary and Media (selected)

Aaron Bateman, “Undersea Cables and the Vulnerability of American Power,” Engelsberg Ideas, May 8, 2024

Aaron Bateman, “Why Russia Might Put a Nuclear Weapon in Space,” Foreign Affairs, March 7, 2024

Aaron Bateman, “The Prospects for United States-China Space Cooperation are Limited,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 12, 2023

“How Elon Musk’s Starlink has Changed Warfare,” interview with the Economist, January 11, 2023

Aaron Bateman, “Anti-Satellite Weapons are Creating Space Hazards. Here’s a Way to Limit the Damage,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 21, 2022

Aaron Bateman, “America Needs a Coalition to Win a Space War,” War on the Rocks, April 29, 2020