From: "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The US has every intention of deploying weapons in space, ...
What is interesting is not this statement, but that it has been more than 40 years since the US first tested a nuclear weapon in space.
Why are new reporters just now paying attention to a "U.S. 'negation' policy in space" that has been around for two generations? And why are they paying attention to the ability
As I took it, the main topic of concern was the proposed denial of access
to space spy/intelligence technology, even for US allies. I came across to
me almost as "The US will forbid all other countries to have any spy/intelligence
satellites." I've seen spin on this that this means the US is intent on
developing greater capabilities to enforce that denial selectively if necessary,
rather than this being a
to hit land and sea-based targets anytime, anywhere.
which was a stated goal of the Star Wars project a generation ago? (I still remember vividly diagrams of the lasers that would be put into the Space Shuttle's cargo bay.)
Why this surprise? It is as if the writers have not paid attention to any military development since 1944.
You don't have to be a space opera science fiction reader to have heard about space warfare or space-to-planet bombardment ... or do you?
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