China successfully destroying a satellite jolted the space weaponry world and as it was expected as a threat to US space interests, however, it didn’t prove as such. The State Department official said Friday in a telephone interview-
‘We do not think there is an arms race in space. The United States believes that the existing body of existing international agreements - including the Outer Space Treaty, as well as the liability and respective compensation conventions - provide the appropriate legal regime for space.’
However, not to forget history and logic that suggests - technical innovations broaden and intensify, not end, the arms race.
Despite neglecting the idea of any arms race in space the official said the space policy clearly states that the United States will oppose the development of new legal regimes or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit U.S. access to, or use of, space - and that no change in that policy is warranted.
So, this don’t mean that another ’star wars’ race has begun? It looks like the Chinese test has really threatened the US supremacy in space weapons and they are trying to neglect the whole issue by simply saying there’s no arms race in space. If there’s no threat to the US supremacy but there’s surely a grave threat to the commercial satellites, space explorations and most importantly to the ISS with thousands of pieces of space junk now orbiting the earth. Space weapons have already destabilized the nuclear arms race and may fatally upset the strategic balance, how can America neglect that?
Via: MSNBC
