Space Weapons Could Emerge from Pentagon Budget

Published: Mar 08, 2006
Source: cdi.org



WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Pentagon's Fiscal Year 2007 (FY07) budget request funds nearly a billion dollars in programs that could provide dual-use space weapons capabilities according to a new joint-analysis by the World Security Institute’s Center for Defense Information (CDI) and the Henry L. Stimson Center.

In the absence of a clear national strategy and policy on new military missions in outer space, the administration of George W. Bush is funding these programs that will create “facts in orbit.” These facts – the development and testing of space weapon technologies and the deployment of dual-use systems without any codes of conduct or rules of the road for their operation – will drive U.S. policy toward space weapons without a debate in either Congress or the public.

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