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Worth noting that the Outer Space Treaty prohibits “weapons of mass destruction” in space, though that is generally interpreted to apply only to nuclear weapons
by unchocked 4y ago
Worth noting that the Outer Space Treaty prohibits “weapons of mass destruction” in space, though that is generally interpreted to apply only to nuclear weapons.
- skeptically 4y ago
- trhway 4y agoAn asteroid (or even just a huge - say 100K tons - space transport barge full of ore) with a huge rocket engine attached - until it is targeted as a weapon, it is hardly can be considered a weapon (yet for example 2000 ton coming in at 10km/s would be a Hiroshima TNT equivalent). And for MAD you do need to have credible threat to wipe your opponents Mars/Moon/etc. colonies too.
- euroderf 4y ago"Starship Troopers" (the film) had an asteroid as a city-buster.
- shepherdjerred 4y agoIf there's anything we know about treaties it's that everyone always follows them
- jameshart 4y agoMAD in an ASW context means 'magnetic anomaly detection' not 'mutual assured destruction'.