Weapons in Space

Open Media

by Karl Grossman, Michio Kaku

Weapons in Space examines how the United States is forcing forward—in violation of international treaties—to militarize space. Based on excerpts from U.S. government documents, award-winning investigative journalist Karl Grossman outlines the U.S. military's space doctrine, its similarity with the original Stars Wars scheme of Ronald Reagan and Edward Teller, and the space-based lasers, hypervelocity guns, and particle beams it plans to deploy in its mission to "dominate" earth.Grossman shows the intimate link between the militarization and the nuclearization of space, and follows the flow of billions of U.S. tax dollars to the corporations that research and develop weapons for space. His book explains the Outer Space Treaty and gives a history of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear power in what it is doing, what it plans to do—and what the reader can do to challenge U.S. plans to turn the heavens into a war zone.

Genres: Science

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2000

Reviews

[Zare · Rating 4 out of 5]

Whenever they say this-or-that happened without reason, without any cause - this must be a signal for you to stop and think. Nothing happens on the whim, nothing between great nations happens without careful and long-term planning. When ball starts rolling it is not like in bowling but more in avalanche manner, it just grows and grows as it reaches the destination.

All the talk how ABM systems (dual purpose though, capable of launching offensive weapons) as purely defensive, pinky promise, falls into water when one looks at data from this book, and idea of basically having deadly weapons in space over every point on our planet, that dates not from second decade of 2000's, but last decade of 1900's. And if there is still doubt just look at all these "private" companies from West (as if anyone would give this power of absolute clarity from the space to private individual) using their satellites for nothing short of military communication, control, navigation, guidance and reconnaissance over one of the parties in conflict in Eastern Europe. We are already in period of time when these lies of private endeavors are shown to be nothing but lies, and thus brings us very close to times when satellites will soon be shot down as clay pigeons, because they just cannot be allowed to orbit and monitor from positions they are on. And just imagine when this happens - when huge constellations of navigation and communication satellites start falling down. Army will manage, that is what they are made for, but civilian infrastructure ..... air and sea travel, all those beautifully automated systems ....... disaster.

When rules are made, they are made for the benefit of the one who is not strong in given area (this is usual mantra when it comes to any complaints from Russian and Chinese side for any weapon limitations, including autonomous weapons use mid 2010's). But then again, rules are easily put aside and disregarded when one feels he is at the peak of its form and feel it has no competitor (as is case with US and all strategic weapon limitations they deemed as limiting to their own world-control-level power).

This is two edged sword - both unwillingness to control power and to abide the existing rules are dangerous things because threat of war is game of survival and as such forces all parties to adapt and develop new capacities. And when it shows that this will become SDI in reverse ....... idiots.

Pandora's box was opened decades ago by arrogant people. Bloody vampires if you ask me, since they are all in power still, at this very time. Due to myopic vision of possible survival of first strike, even from nuclear weapons, and some weird notion of how wars are played-out we are entering ever more deadlier times. Bloody idiots.

Very disturbing, and very interesting short book.

Highly recommended.

[Dan Zarfati · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is more about political awareness than scientific interest.

[Rinkan Rohit Jena · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is written around 2002 so the author what is discussing sounds like a catastrophe is about to occur , he is only focusing the weapon race on which United States military is participating , if it's true they want to deploy weapons in space that's a great deal but as I can assume they can't generate that much of energy in space , and secondly if the author would have listened to statement of Chinese space authority he would have fainted down by listening only of a artificial moon , and now India have also planned for a space mission in 2022 so all are working for peace in space , and it's a great deal that Elon musk had not started working on his dream during this book .😁😉 If you want to get knowledge about space weaponry history it's a must read . Thank you for reading my review
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