When humanity's interests will matter more than a single country or handful of peoples' interests, stuff like this will stop.
US military reveals it has weapons in space
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one is signing an arms reduction treaty or giving up weapons while Russia has troops in Ukraine. That's an object lesson in relying on paper barriers that the whole world is watching.
I mean, true, but also, nobody is going to give up weapons while the US is kidnapping heads of state, launching decapitation strikes and invading a half dozen new countries.
The Libyans gave up their WMD program shortly after the USA invaded Iraq…
Re: US military reveals it has weapons in space
#14This is gonna reignite X-37B purpose speculations. Can't wait for the new ridiculous stuff internet people will come up with.
Re: US military reveals it has weapons in space
#15I remembered the 1967 Outer Space Treaty as preventing militarisation of space. It turns out, not wholly. Celestial bodies (the moon, asteroids, etc) are out of bounds completely and are only for 'peaceful purposes'. For space itself, the ban is on WMDs, like nuclear weapons, in space anywhere.[0]
But the US has maintained a polite fiction that space is not weaponised/militarised. This is a break from that. The wording[1],
> The United States now has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary action.
is stated as 'That phrase was very well thought out.'. It looks like they're positioning it as purely defensive.
Which is allowed but being open about it legitimises the concept of weapons in space. It's worrying, and potentially destabilising. I expect they mean it as a deterrent but I frankly this it's irresponsible in that it invites an open presence from other countries too.
[0]: You can download a PDF here: https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000... and the relevant section is Article IV.
[1] https://aviationweek.com/defense/missile-defense-weapons/us-...
(I can't read the FT link, paywall, but the FT is not a great source these days anyway.)
Re: US military reveals it has weapons in space
#16Only direction this goes is towards escalation now. All for ego. People like,Troy Meink, should never be allowed to speak on behalf of our future. No country will ever trust a US led disarmament treaty. Unless entire population stands up to show we won't put up with this ever again. And that the military and leaders back the people's will.
Nor one from Russia.