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Power Problems • July 2, 2019 

# Nuclear Crossroads I: America Ad Astra 

Todd Harrison from the Center for Strategic and International Studies joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to discuss the proposed Space Force, war in space, and his chapter in the forthcoming Cato report *America’s Nuclear Crossroads*.

- [Todd Harrison bio](https://www.csis.org/people/todd-harrison)
- [America’s Nuclear Crossroads](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pdfs/americasnuclearcrossroads_advancereading.pdf)
- Aerospace Security Project at CSIS, “[Commanding Space: The Story Behind the Space Force](https://aerospace.csis.org/commanding-space/)
- Todd Harrison, “[A Space Force is Worth the Price](https://aerospace.csis.org/a-space-force-is-worth-the-price/)”

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##### [Emma Ashford](/people/emma-ashford)

Senior Fellow, Stimson Center

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##### [A. Trevor Thrall](/people/trevor-thrall)

Former Senior Fellow, Defense and Foreign Policy Department, Cato Institute

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