

neighbor Canada) have been leaders in seeking passage of the PAROS treaty. False Pretextįor decades there has been an effort to extend the Outer Space Treaty and enact the Prevention of an Arms Race, the PAROS treaty, which would bar any weapons in space.Ĭhina, Russia (and U.S. Rocket launches from New Zealand carrying experimental Air Force Research Laboratory Satellite into low earth orbit on July 29, 2021. Congress voted for the legislation providing for formation of the U.S. 3 briefing that the new service has the ‘full support’ of the Biden administration.” And it went on: “‘We’re not revisiting the decision,’ she said.” President Joe Biden will not seek to eliminate the Space Force and roll military space functions back into the Air Force, the White House confirmed.” It continued: “White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters during a Feb. As Defense News headlined in 2021: “ With Biden’s ‘full support,’ the Space Force is officially here to stay.” president, Democrat Joe Biden, has not pulled back on the U.S. The Outer Space Treaty bars placement “in orbit around the Earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction or from installing such weapons on celestial bodies.” Vice Chief of Space Operations General David Thompson swears in the first four enlisted recruits to the Space Force at Military Entrance Processing Station-Baltimore in Maryland on October 20, 2020.
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“ This foundational treaty has allowed for half a century of ever expanding peaceful activity in space, free from man-made threats,” writes Paul Meyer, in his chapter “Arms Control in Outer Space: A Diplomatic Alternative to Star Wars” in the book Security in the Global Commons and Beyond. I’m hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces … It is going to be something.” Donald Trump inspects the Space Force flag. in 2018 that “it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space….

Space Force and the Evisceration of the 1967 Outer Space Treatyĭonald Trump declared at a meeting of the National Space Council of the U.S. and China and b) the growing militarization of space by the U.S.-in violation of the landmark Outer Space Treaty of 1967 that sets aside space “for peaceful purposes.” China-U.S. The above scenario looks increasingly plausible given a) the growing prospect of war between the U.S.

activates its “rods from God”- a scheme developed in Project Thor involving telephone-pole-sized tungsten rods being dropped from orbit reaching a speed ten times the speed of sound hitting with the force of nuclear weapons-and Beijing’s military command centers and other significant targets are destroyed. and China, after years of belligerence, go to war over control of the Taiwan straits most of the battles are fought through cyber-attacks and space-based weapons systems that had been perfected over the previous decades. ImImagine this scenario from the year 2045: The U.S.
