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Being the 4th nation to do this is tremendous achievement, being not acknowledged by PM would have been a bigger news.
by dugluak 8y ago
Being the 4th nation to do this is tremendous achievement, being not acknowledged by PM would have been a bigger news.
- garmaine 8y agoThese tests ought to be banned by international agreements. This is not an achievement for anybody. It is a travesty.
- z3phyr 8y agoThen everybody will do it secretly. It's only a travesty when someone starts it; other people have the right to respond to parity with their own.
- bilbo0s 8y agoWait... what? So the first, the US, was a travesty, but everyone else is legitimate self-defense?
- garmaine 8y agoThere's no way to secretly test these weapons. To be clear, I'm not objecting to the weapons existence. I'm objecting to the tests, which are potentially worse than above-ground nuclear testing. The kessler syndrome, if realized, would permanently destroy our ability to deploy, access, and use space resources.
- dugluak 8y agoHow many tests did US conduct since 1950s?
- garmaine 8y agoAnti-satellite weapon tests? Only twice. Once in 1985, which was internationally condemned and widely considered a mistake, and once operationally in 2008 to destroy a failed satellite about to re-enter with a full tank of toxic fuel (the debris from this immediately entered the atmosphere).
- z3phyr 8y agoIt 300km in low earth orbit. Press briefing said that the debris will re-enter the atmosphere within a week.