Nukewatch wholeheartedly supports the demand by the Directors and Advisors of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space to halt the U.S. weaponization of outer space. This is their recent declaration:
The September 14 disclosure by U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink that the U.S. has deployed space weapons in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) confirmed what many had always thought and is a consequence of the competition between the United States, Russia, and China over access to LEO. Whoever controls the increasingly limited parking spaces in LEO will be at a considerable [military and commercial] advantage and will be able to see and direct weapons not only to targets in space but also on the Earth.
Elon Musk is being paid to fill up LEO with military satellites as fast as possible for the U.S.
The U.S. Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability with huge radars in Texas, Australia, and possibly Wales — where grassroots opposition is massive — would be part of a system to guide anti-satellite weapons to hit targeted satellites in space.
Other options for the U.S. appear to be space-based lasers and electro-magnetic guns to blind or fry spacecraft electronics.
The Trump administration’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense system is bringing lots of lucrative contracts to aerospace companies but is nowhere near likely to be completed by Trump’s end-of-term. The American Physical Society and the Congressional Budget Office also report it would cost trillions of dollars and would not likely be effective against Russian or Chinese hypersonic missiles.
However, Mr. Meink’s announcement could really be about attempting to make Golden Dome sound inevitable, thereby forcing Congress to appropriate the massive funds needed to secure the controversial project in the Pentagon’s space strategy.
One other long-term issue is the “mining the sky program.” The U.S. and its fellow NATO allies want to move their 500-year western colonial domination to the Moon, Mars, and other celestial bodies for resource extraction. During a keynote speech at the Air, Space, and Cyber Conference, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine said, “the Joint Force is prepared to fight, endure, and win in global contested environments from the seabed to cislunar space.” Cislunar space is the space between the Earth and the Moon.
The plan is to establish nuclear powered mining colonies. Nuclear powered rocket engines are being developed to cut-in-half the amount of time it would take to get to Mars. The Department of Energy labs that fabricate these space nuclear devices have a long history of worker, air, and water contamination.
The 1989 Congressional study entitled “Military Space Forces: The Next 50 Years” called for the U.S. to control the pathway off Earth to space (also called the Earth-Moon Gravity Well).
As the Space Command’s “Vision for 2020” stated, the U.S. must “control and dominate space” and “deny” others the use of space. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recently stated, “I’m not interested in orbital equity or parity. We demand orbital dominance plain and simple.” Those are fighting words.
In the end, taxpayers should be wondering who will pay the trillions of dollars for these collective offensive space programs — especially when the U.S. is already over $40 trillion in debt! Long ago, the aerospace industry identified the “entitlement programs” as their preferred source of funds to pay these enormous costs. By this they mean Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the now tattered social safety net. Trump has announced that the already fiscally strapped states should take over Medicare and Medicaid due to recent war spending.
In 1989 Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell (the 6th person to walk on the moon) spoke at a Peace in Space rally organized by Bruce Gagnon at the now re-named Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Mitchell told the assembled that a war in space would be the “one and only” because so much space junk would be created (on top of the existing huge debris field) that we would not be able to get a rocket thru the deadly space trash orbiting the Earth. He said it would be like trying to “get thru a piranha laced river” in the Amazon.
There is a name today for this phenomenon — the Kessler Syndrome. Much of life on Earth would grind to a halt, as the satellites that make our high-tech world function would be smashed to bits.
The 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, signed and ratified by 118 states including the U.S., calls for the peaceful use of outer space, prohibits the deployment of any weapons of mass destruction, and prevents treaty members from claiming sovereign control. However, it does not prevent the stationing of other types of weapons in space. The U.S. has repeatedly voted against a resolution, supported by China and Russia, for “no first placement of weapons in outer space.” Now we know why.
For many years the U.S. and Israel have also voted against the annual call by China, Russia, and others to negotiate a new treaty on PAROS — the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space. The official position of the U.S. has been, “There are no weapons in space, we don’t need a new treaty.”
We see this as a spiritual disconnection in the minds and hearts of those “leaders” in Washington who believe that 4% of the global population living in the U.S. should be the “Masters of Space.” It is a deep sickness.
Space should be a realm for exploration and inspiration, a place for humans to grow further in knowledge and wisdom. A few morally impoverished souls are ruining space even as they poison the Earth. This will not end well.
The time has come for people in the U.S. to rise up and demand their government halt [its] march of the human race to annihilation.
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