Episode 92 - Good Heavens

In 1967 the world witnessed the signing of the Outer Space Treaty, and now over 100 countries have joined the international agreement to declare space as "the province of all mankind," to be used "exclusively for peaceful purposes", and kept free of weapons and military installations. This idealism is a far cry from current reality, with US officials espousing values of domination and exclusive advantages to be maintained in space, while other countries are blowing satellites out of the sky with missiles to prove themselves mighty "space powers." Will we ever reclaim space as the peaceful province of all mankind, or will the road to Donald J. Kessler's infamous scenario be paved with neutral particle beams, lasers, nano-satellite swarms, machine-gun mounted satellites, and giant tungsten rods?
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Chapters

03:46 Space Opera
08:05 Beams, Bombs, and Rods from God
15:35 Two Visions for Space
24:33 Space Force and the Drive to Dominate
27:55 Neighbors and Rockets
40:22 Satellite-Killers
52:29 What Choice?
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Published 19-09-2019 01:37