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> Just a few decades ago the militarization of space was universally acknowledged as inappropriate and this was codified in international law. That's a hell of
by DuskStar 6y ago
> Just a few decades ago the militarization of space was universally acknowledged as inappropriate and this was codified in international law.
That's a hell of an interpretation...
I'd instead say that the world powers recognized that nukes in space would be destabilizing, and banned that specific thing. Space has been militarized since the 60s.
- carapace 6y agoThere are satellites for watching and communicating, but no weapons. Of course, actually there are weapons on some of the satellites but everyone pretends that there aren't to maintain stability. Publicly putting weapons in space is destabilizing, stupid to the point of evil.
- nickff 6y agoJust to back this up, the Soviets mounted at least one cannon to a space station (Salyut 3 in 1974), and tried to launch an orbital anti-satellite weapons platform (Polyus in 1987).
- pyuser583 6y agoSince the 50s.