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    Hiding from the light: The establishment of the Joint Australia-United States Relay Ground Station at Pine Gap
    Tanter, R (Nautilus, 2019-11-02)
    The author discusses recently released Australian cabinet papers dealing with a decision in September 1997 to allow the establishment of a Joint Australia-United States Relay Ground Station at Pine Gap to support two United States early warning satellite systems in place of its predecessor, the Joint Space Communications Facility at Nurrungar. The cabinet papers give a picture, albeit one muddied by censorship, of the Howard government’s consideration of ‘a U.S. request to continue Australian involvement in a U.S. space technological system to provide the U.S. with not only early warning of missile attack as a basis of nuclear deterrence, but also the capacity to target a retaliatory nuclear strike in the most effective way as part of a nuclear war-fighting capability. There is little evidence in these documents that senior ministers and their advisors considered these matters with any seriousness.’
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    US signals intelligence (SIGINT) activities in Japan 1945 – 2015: A Visual Guide
    TANTER, R ; Ball, D (Nautilus Institute, 2015)
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    A New Approach to Security in Northeast Asia – Breaking the Gridlock Workshop. Summary report
    TANTER, R ; Hayes, P ; Kampmark, B (Nautilus Institute, 2012)
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    Bamaga Signals Intelligence Station
    TANTER, R (Nautilus Institute, 2012)
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    Log of US Navy ship visits to Darwin, 2000 – 2013
    TANTER, R (Nautilus Institute, 2013)
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    ASD Cocos Islands Signals Intelligence Station
    TANTER, R (Nautilus Institute, 2013)
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    Possibilities and effects of a nuclear missile attack on Pine Gap
    TANTER, R (Nautilus Institute, 2013)
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    Modernised High Frequency Communications System – Riverina node
    TANTER, R (Nautilus Institute, 2013)
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    Expanded Communications Satellite Surveillance and Intelligence Activities Utilising Multi-beam Antenna Systems
    Ball, Desmond, ; Campbell, Duncan, ; Robinson, Bill, ; TANTER, R (Nautilus Institute, 2015-05-28)
    The recent expansion of FORNSAT/COMSAT (foreign satellite/communications satellite) interception by the UKUSA or Five Eyes (FVEY) partners has involved the installation over the past eight years of multiple advanced quasi-parabolic multi-beam antennas, known as Torus, each of which can intercept up to 35 satellite communications beams. Material released by Edward Snowden identifies a ‘New Collection Posture’, known as ‘Collect-it-all’, an increasingly comprehensive approach to SIGINT collection from communications satellites by the NSA and its partners. There are about 232 antennas available at identified current Five Eyes FORNSAT/COMSAT sites, about 100 more antennas than in 2000. We conclude that development work at the observed Five Eyes FORNSAT/ COMSAT sites since 2000 has more than doubled coverage, and that adding Torus has more than trebled potential coverage of global commercial satellites. The report also discusses Torus antennas operating in Russia and Ukraine, and other U.S. Torus antennas.
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    Managing Operations at Pine Gap
    TANTER, R ; Ball, D ; Robinson, B (The Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, 2015)
    Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability Special Report