Space Treaty, Not Weapons, Needed, Expert Says

Posted on: Nov. 8th, 2004 || Source: space.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

NEW YORK – The development and deployment of space-based weapons by the U.S. military will not only encourage other nations to do the same, but leave vital non-weapon spacecraft vulnerable to attack, according to one weapons expert.



Physicist Richard Garwin, a nuclear weapons expert who has studied the U.S. military’s plans for space-based systems, said that while protecting space assets is key, devoted weapons platforms could be easily destroyed by enemies with cheaper, mine-like microsatellites.

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