The New York Daily News reports:
President Trump doesn’t think the U.S. military is large enough — so he announced during a bizarre press conference Tuesday that it will expand beyond planet Earth.
“My new national strategy for space recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea,” Trump told a crowd of Marines at the Miramar military base in California. “We have the air force. We will have a space force. We will call it the space force.”
The most cogent reaction:
1/ Please don’t fall for the “Space Force” jokes. Trump making the militarization of space our national policy literally pits the US against the entire world.
— Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) March 13, 2018
Let’s go into some background. https://t.co/HWZiYzZ9VA
2/ In 1966, the US and Soviet Union signed a peace treaty for space, agreeing not to place nuclear weapons there. The reason is straightforward, because it poses a huge threat to human life.
— Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) March 13, 2018
This treaty led to decades of peaceful scientific collaboration in space.
3/ By 2006, the 1966 treaty had expired. The UN created a new peace treaty forbidding the militarization of space - again forbidding nuclear weapons.
— Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) March 13, 2018
The Bush administration opposed it, making the US the only nation on earth to vote no, though Israel abstained.
It was ratified.
4/ With Trump deciding to break this treaty on the militarization of space, this means other nations could be forced to develop space-based weapons for nuclear deterrent.
— Brianna Wu (@Spacekatgal) March 13, 2018
This could start a new era of nuclear proliferation - literally the last thing we need right now.
The man is really sick -- he'd have to be, to see everything -- and I mean everything -- in terms of war.
Kelly should just give him a box of toy soldiers and park him in a corner someplace -- out of reach of his "nuclear button."
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